Pulp Lyrics

Album: On Fire

Tunnel Lyrics

Tunnel The tenth of July, 1985

 Don't ask stupid questions

 I got bored

 I had nothing to do I was bored

 I had, I had not

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 Fifteen weeks since the light has gone

 Fifteen weeks with the same shirt on

 A thousand bodies stink and sweat and somebody's trying to roll a cigarette

 Clean mister 

 Clean mister 

 Clean missed her 

 Clean missed her 

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 Relax

 Clean mister

 Fifteen weeks with the same shirt on

 Clean mister

 Clean mister

 Clean missed her

 Clean missed her

 Just relax and enjoy it

 it's nothing really

 Let's get you out of those wet clothes

 C'mon, just lift yourself up, get these awful trousers off

 You'll feel so much better afterwards

 Just close your eyes and let it ooze all over you 

 Trickling down your back, warm and sticky

 Isn't that nice?

 No, don't speak just let yourself go and you'll sink

 Let yourself go sinking down, deeper and deeper and deeper 

 At three o'clock that morning I awoke in an unfamiliar room in my hands like sodden paper

 It was a thick, glutinous, pale green liquid

 The sunlight through net curtains

 Going six hundred miles an hour into brilliant white light

 There's a brass band playing somewhere

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 Roll over on to your back and wait for the talculm

 But what's that smell? 

 Pull back the light, crisp,

 linen sheets and find that sweat they were only two hours before

 The bedroom tips sideways

 NoNoNoNoNoNoNO!

 Let me out!

 Let me out! ... 

 I've got to get out of that stinking shit-hole

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 I would lie there and see green fields and see the sky blue, 

 the sky blue above me 

 And be clean again

 I know I'll never, ever be clean again

 Never be clean again.