About this song
Hull or Hell is a track by Chumbawamba, taken from the album “The Boy Bands Have Won”, released March 17, 2008 on Universal Records. It runs 3:31. Use the Deezer link above to stream the full song.
Lyrics
Find another songOf larks, trains, windows and brooks
The poet he writes it all down in his book
Won’t meet your eye but he wants you to look
In Hull or hell he lies
Lambs in the winter and swans in the spring
Children at play they’re like birds on the wing
The poet he writes that the sun seems to swing
In Hull or hell he lies
Away from the world and away from the page
Hidden in corners the gathering of age
Retreats to the wings where he once held the stage
In Hull or hell he lies
The dirt and the filth that we don’t get to see
That’s eating his language away
This yellow-eyed nastiness hides from the light of the day
Resenting the everyday growing so old
Where winter once pictured as flowers in fold
When frosty and bitter and weathered and cold
In Hull or hell he lies
His housemaid she tried but the dirt grew so fast
The darkest of colours he nailed to the mast
Stuck in his ways like he’s stuck in the past
Lyrics supplied by lyrics.ovh.
More from The Boy Bands Have Won
- 01 Refugee 2:42
- 02 Same Old Same Old 0:59
- 03 Waiting for the Bus 2:46
- 04 What We Want 0:48
- 05 When an Old Man Dies 0:54
- 06 Add Me 3:27
- 07 Words Can Save Us 1:52
- 08 El Fusilado 2:32
- 09 Unpindownable 1:22
- 10 I Wish That They'd Sack Me 4:10
- 11 Word Bomber 2:14
- 12 All Fur Coat & No Knickers 2:11