Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers

[Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers]

California, here we come
Right back where we started from

[Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers]

I’m so surprised you want to dance with me now
I was just getting used to living life without you around
You didn’t see me, I was falling apart
I was a television version of a person with a broken heart

[Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers]

Paul Banks
Riverstage, Brisbane
Christopher Searles

[Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers]

So, the choice I have made
May seem strange to you
But who asked you, anyway?
It’s my life to wreck
My own way

[Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers]

[Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers]

I forgive you but there’s no pretending

[Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers]

[Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers]

everything you know is wrong

[Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers]

I’m always thinking about useless things
I’m always checking out
I’m always mothering myself to bits
I’m always checking out
Walking through the Valley of Kings
I’m always having someone else dreams
I’m always thinking about useless things
I’m always checking out

[Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers]

Matt Berninger / The National
UK, September 2023
Photos by: Graham MacIndoe

[Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers]

You can stop dreamin’
I’ll dream for you
You can stop dreamin’
it’ll all come true

[Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers]

Why did you dress me down, dress me down and liquor me up

Playing Available again after 9 years

[Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers]

So if I say it’s my fault
For your success by default
Will you lighten up on me?
Can you lighten up on me?

[Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers]

In New York I lost it all
To you and your vices
Still I’m stayin’ on to figure out
My mid life crisis
I hit an iceberg in my life
Yet I’m still afloat
You lose your balance, lose your wife
In the queue for the lifeboat

[Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers]