Johnny Flynn Drum song lyrics

Mr. Drum was here yesterday

He knows just what he needs

And gives what he's got to the thump of his creed

Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse

Good looking corpse

In a witch doctor's den, in a shanty shabeen

From the echoes of laughter I know where he's been

From the liquor you've drunk and the air that you breathe

Is the tap of his typing, is the sweat from his sleeve

Live fast, die young

Leave a good looking corpse

Good looking corpse

On the corners of streets with a dash to the tail

Is provoking a malice as sharp as a nail

And a wit he has slain with an eye full of ink

Is a stab in the dark and a push to the brink

Oh drum I was glad, I was glad in your beat

Oh drum I was moved by your love of your street

Oh drum I was glad, I was glad in your beat

Oh drum I was moved by your love of your street

And if you have gone then I'll summon you back

With the reach of your spirit past the white and the black

Tell me please, tell me Henry, tell me ever and more

Tell your son, tell your daughter, and open the door

Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse

Good looking corpse

I'm a hag and I'm hooked

I'm down and I'm in

I'm a world without water

I'm fat and I'm thin

I'm a story you told

I'm the promise that you sound

I'm the day without water

I'm the world that I want

Live fast die young, leave a good looking corpse

Good looking corpse

Oh drum I was glad, I was glad in your beat

Oh drum I was moved by your love of your street

Oh drum I was glad, I was glad in your beat

Oh drum I was moved by your love of your street

Oh drum I was glad, I was glad in your beat

Oh drum I was moved by your love of your street

Oh drum I was glad, I was glad in your beat

Oh drum I was moved by your love of your street