Pogues - Blue Heaven lyrics

Alligators snap at your ankles<br>And branches snap at your brain<br>If I ever get through this swamp alive<br>I'll nevermore pray for rain<br><br>This must be the place, and still<br>Somehow it don't seem right<br>That something in the moon<br>Could change these endless days<br>To lonely nights<br><br>I take a stroll down by the sea<br>And walk along the pier<br>Then I slip and hit my head<br>Now's the time to fear<br><br>See the surface, see the rocks<br>See my past fly swiftly by<br>I feel the water in my lungs<br>And wake up screaming for my life<br><br>In my blue heaven<br>There's a bottle of pontchetrain<br>Chalmette by moonlight<br>To take away the pain<br><br>Card sharks and blue harps<br>And dolphins who can leap<br>In my blue heaven<br>Where I can laugh<br>And I can weep<br><br>Black shapes zip into corners<br>The big lads start to crawl<br>To holes of their own making<br>In the cracks within the wall<br><br>Snakes and rats and spiders<br>I know that they're still there<br>I pray to God that I may sleep<br>Without a hope, without a care<br><br>In my blue heaven<br>There's a bottle of pontchetrain<br>Chalmette by moonlight<br>To take away the pain<br><br>Felines and sea lions<br>And rain on the beach<br>In my blue heaven<br>With angels who are out of reach<br><br>In my blue heaven<br>There's a bottle of pontchetrain<br>Chalmette by moonlight<br>To take away the pain<br><br>Nightingales sing<br>And the bells they will ring<br>In my blue heaven<br>The bells of hell<br>Go ding-a-ling-a-ling