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I was driving around this godforsaken city Where everybody is homeless or they look homeless I was drawn to the piers and they looked to me like Two beacons in a hurricane city Under the bright lights that's where it all began I met the devil by the deep blue sea And I watched from my truck As you collapsed on the beach I picked you up then helped you to sleep And when I looked back I was parked there "waiting" What was I waiting for? I was waiting for you And as I watched you sleeping I had a strange thought This is the beginning but the beginning of what? Hold on to life Hold on to life She recovered all right and we got Letras de cancionesto talking I ended up telling her how I felt And Jesus Christ it was such a surpise I was in love with one look in her eyes Before she said one word, before I heard her story It didn't matter, I was hooked. "I'm a junkie and a dealer, yeah I'm a tart It's not smart I know, I cut men up My mum says I'm the black widow spider Pull men into my web then fuck them up At 15 my boy and I were walking home one night A drunk driver hit us, Mike was killed outright Had a row with the next one, he roared off He crashed into a bus, I was a flame to his moth I had a violent scene with my long term man He took drugs and OD'd, so can you understand? When my mother says I'm the black widow spider Keep away from her, don't you ever get beside her Hold on to life Hold on to life I looked at her, she lived in such danger But she walked into trouble, I knew I could change her So I bought her the heroin she needed which kept her off the game Then one of her druggy friends asked me To do the run to Spain "You've got the perfect front With your big fuck off truck" Yeah, I had a lot of front and figured I was due more good luck For a truckful of smack they said they'd give me 20 grand I said yeah, but it's not the money I need the H for Diane I beat the customs and I beat the fear But I had a lot of time to think Bringing back the gear I couldn't let those bastards kill more Dianes So first stop, the cops, I shopped the whole gange And would you believe it, those cops paid me 40 grand Hold on to life Hold on to life But we had to leave Brighton There was a contract on his head He said we'll get it together in the country We headed for Wales. He said we were living like lucky people He bought us a semi with a cat Ate TV dinners, watched a lot of soaps He had so many, so many high hopes Whereas I just hoped to be high He tried to get me off the drugs, on my case always I'd never had so many boring holidays, I didn� appreciate it enough, then he complained, I guess it's simple, I needed to see bright lights again, He was using his truck to carry spaghetti and pasta But me, I needed a life that was a whole lot faster Wanted to be back in Brighton Wanted to feel like me I loved him for what he'd done for me But I wasn't in love anymore. Hold on to life Hold on to life Yeah, it's like Harlan Howard says She loved the Brighton lights more than she loved me She called them beautiful jewels, too special to steal They shone like the eyes of children Or the lips of lovers One night I came home and she was gone Where to, it didn't take me long Though there was a contract out on my life I didn't give a fuck, I needed my wife I found her alright, with a guy called Cat She was hooked again in Brighton, screamed she wouldn't come back To cut a long story short, That was That. It's the last time I'll be driving round the Steine Round the fountains and the dark shadowy green I got some skag from a friend of Cat's Swapped if for a house in Wales, nice semi with a cat Well I won't be needing it anymore My wife has turned into a whore I'm parked by the post-box, in between the piers, Where I first saw her Where it all began I drop the letter in the box, and walk out on the beach This time, it's me collapsed in a heap Hold on to life Hold on to life The police got the tape and this is what it said By the time you get this, I'll be dead You'll find me on the beach where it all started I'm doing this because of my wife I love her dearly, but she doesn't feel the same I can't face life without her, and I can't live with her Not while she's like this She was clean for 18 months when we were together But now she's back in this life I spent 40 grand trying to make her happy But now the money's gone And so has she. Hold on to life Hold on to life That was two weeks ago, cut me up bad. I OD'd myself last weekend I didn't want this sort of end I just fell out of love with him I wanted him to go, or to let me go But he called me his wife, he was obsessed He'd fallen head over heels in love with me Just like the rest (the way that they all do) There's my new boyfriend Isn't he beautiful, hey meet Jim I guess in a year, if my mum's right You'll be writing an epitaph for him. Hold on to life Hold on to life Under the bright lights where it all began, I met my devil by the deep blue sea Freakin' Brighton, freakin' Brighton, freakin' Brighton, freakin' Brighton From Letras Mania