Song of the Day: You're My Waterloo ~ The Libertines

"You'll never fumigate the demons
No matter how much you smoke..."

A song written by Peter Doherty (The Libertines)

Pic via noisey.vice.com

Being quite happy, today I want to dedicate this beautiful little, dramatically romantic song in eternal love to... (she knows, that's enough)...

So whenever you cross my blog, you might remember a beautiful day and much more

(cause we are the survivors, of more than one life)...

And so this might be my first post which can be completely understood only by one single person on this planet.

I guess.

Even the black cat's inside

So ^bew.are^.

♥

You're my Waterloo

by THE LIBERTINES

Day...

@Glastonbury Festival 2015

You'll never fumigate the demons
No matter how much you smoke
Just say you love me
For three good reasons
I'll throw you the rope

You don't need it
Because you are the survivor
Of more than one life
You're the only lover I had
Who ever slept with a knife

You're not Judy Garland
Oh Just like me you've never really had a home (of your own)
I'm not Tony Hancock baby
Until the dawn
We'll stone the crows
We'll stone the crows
We'll stone the crows

And you see I've brought you flowers
All collected from the Old Vic Stage
I've been sitting here for hour's baby
Just chasing these words
Across the page

You're my Waterloo
I'll be your Gypsy Lane
I'm so glad we know just what to do
And exactly who's to blame

You're my Waterloo
I'll be your Stanley Park
I'm so glad we know just what to do
And no ones left
Stumbling around
Fumbling around
Tumbling around
In the dark

Always in the dark
Always in the dark
Always in the dark

You're my Waterloo
I'll be your Calvary
I'm so glad we know just what to do
And everyone's gonna be happy
Everyone's gonna be happy
Everyone's gonna be happy

But of course

... & Night

@Reading Festival 2015

The song's history & background:

"You're My Waterloo is an early Libertines track, recorded by the band during their Odessa Studio Recordings. Although it was never actually released by The Libertines for more than a decade, it was played at live shows, especially by Peter Doherty solo. [To me, now it's my favourite song on their new album "Anthems For Doomed Youth" (2015), in a very beautiful version more similar to that of the live videos here (with piano & strings) than to the early recording.]

The lyrics are thought to refer to Carl Barât [Doherty's friend, band & life compagnion], identifiable through romanticized characteristics now central to the Libertines mythology (cigarette, flick knife, "never really had a home"). Most tellingly, the lyric "You are the survivor of more than one life" is paraphrased by Doherty in The Books of Albion: The Collected Writings of Peter Doherty in an early journal entry referring to Barât (p. 27).

Doherty dedicated You're My Waterloo to Barât at a solo concert at the Brixton Mass on June 17, 2008, after Barât was hospitalized with acute pancreatitis."
(info text by TheWakefieldOne, first chapter a little updated & personalized by me)

The original early version of "You're My Waterloo" by THE LIBERTINES

(very lovely, too, though I like the new and more dramatic one from 2015 even more)

Peter Doherty & the black cat

Pic via mitvergnuegen.com

Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass,
it's about learning to dance in the rain.

K.

xxx
♥

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