Jack Hayter - Farewell Jezebel lyrics

Hips akimbo Head thrown back Your toes are curled up You look happy. I cannot show this to anyone. A sweaty little Polaroid you pressed into my hand You said “Tara” and left with your old man. We have all been had But no-one ever had us quite like you. Farewell Jezebel Beloved mother of someone or other. In fond remembrance No one writes upon a gravestone very much at all. They will not write about the time you got so drunk You puked up in your handbag In the back of that black taxi cab. The precious hours you stole away from him to lie beside me Or that time you wrote “I want you” on your t*ts We hold these memories very close But no-one held us quite like you. Farewell Jezebel Beloved mother of someone or other. In fond remembrance No one writes upon a gravestone anything of use. This photograph I hold is silent. It looks sad without the laughter. I cannot share it with anyone. And when they come to clear your house They will not find a trace of us Or anything about the world we knew. Farewell Jezebel Beloved mother of someone or other. In fond remembrance No one writes upon a gravestone very much at all. ©J Hayter 2011