Paul Heaton
Mermaids and Slaves
[Intro]

[Verse 1]
Baby, let's drink and drive
Baby, let's drink and drive
Drink til the conversation turns pink
And drive to the other side

Baby, let's look and learn
Baby, let's look and learn
Look till a certain feeling takes hook
And learn when the retinas burn

[Pre-Chorus 1]
Let's fool and coerce at the singer of verse
Died of insufferable pain
Let's fuel the dream; every Buckley or Dean
Was genius, misjudged or insane

[Chorus]
Let's drive over cliff
That maybe or if
That maybe or if that's cursed us
The whole of our days

Let's put out to sea
Poor you and poor me
Poor you and poor me on the rocks
That crushed mermaids and slaves

[Verse 2]
Baby, let's duck and dive
Baby, let's duck and dive
Duck till a major change in our luck
Dive if we wanna survive

Baby, let's hit and run
Baby, let's hit and run
Hit till you see the split of that lip
Run like the wind to the sun

[Pre-Chorus 2]
Let's wrap up that notion and sell it as potion
That greed is a good way to die
Take tragic mistake and crash into lake
And sell it to folk passing by

[Chorus]
Let's drive over cliff
That maybe or if
That maybe or if that's cursed us
The whole of our days

Let's put out to sea
Poor you and poor me
Poor you and poor me on the rocks
That crushed mermaids and slaves

[Instrumental]

[Chorus]
Let's drive over cliff
That maybe or if
That maybe or if that's cursed us
The whole of our days

Let's put out to sea
Poor you and poor me
Poor you and poor me on the rocks
That crushed mermaids and slaves