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The Streets lyrics - Memento Mori

album: The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living (2006)
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Ah, what was the question 
Oh yeah, momento mori 
It means remember it's inevitable that we will all die 
It sounds quite depressing when said so raw and direct 
But it means don't hang yourself on a material life 
But that gets dropped when I'm bop on shopping day 
Am I shallow, am i hung up on such wrong ways 
Yes I am shallow and loving every wrong play 
If love is blind then why do we all buy lingerie 
I've got nothing in my life away from the studio 
So when I'm loose I end up consuming dough 

Memento mori, memento mori 
It's latin and it says we must all die 
I tried it for a while but it's a load of boring shit 
So I buy buy buy buy buy buy 

If I start to think of life I have prangs of paranoia 
Pull one stripey shirt off a racks or another 
Overthink my fate grasping a pastel jumper 
Panic buy a flight home, prang though actually sober 
Change my mind and fly back into vegas 
Buy more pastel shades and some famous labels 
Frame the ferrari through the day with the mayhem 
Just to forget about the race in my head 
I don't really care about the luck and the look 
But driving a ferrarri is fucking book 

Memento mori, memento mori 
It's latin and it says we must all die 
I tried it for a while but it's a load of boring shit 
So I buy buy buy buy buy buy 

I think if I could see me now from my growing past 
I'd Hate the shirted cunt that seems to be so fucking flash 
I reckon from the threadsI think all I think's about cash 
But my manager tells me I ought to think about cash 
It's like people don't know the eighties started 
My car just keeps carding with the card machine 
You don't regard the old you, driving a ferrarri 
Mine's the driving license through Nevada at speed 
I never think about money 
In fact I have no idea how much money I have 

Memento mori, memento mori 
It's latin and it says we must all die 
I tried it for a while but it's a load of boring shit 
So I buy buy buy buy buy buy 

Chilly 'n carmen air sips as I'm parting her hair 
But I'm an asbo drinker I want to be chilly parkair 
But asbo drinkers just don't dig my art and my flair 
Even if they dig my asbo driving, past their carlight flair 
Sometimes when I my diamond trinkets with my whores 
I know I've strayed a bit from my old sins and my walks 
But then I laugh out loud that my car still fucking talks 
I feel awful for a bit but at least I'm not poor