Five Minutes Songtext
von Scroobius Pip

Each night she lays shivering, quivering here
Asking why she keeps forgiving him and living in fear
At work she has a glistening driven career
While at home with one swing of the fist it disappears

Each night she lays shivering, quivering here
Asking why she keeps forgiving him and living in fear
At work she has a glistening driven career
While at home with one swing of the fist it disappears

She′d often think of different ways to get from under his noose grip
It's one thing to see a path but it′s another to choose it
It's one thing to want to run but it's another to do it
It′s one thing to buy a gun but it′s another to use it

But buy a gun she did and it made her feel good
She told herself if she really had to use it she would
The next night drunk at the end of her bed he stood
She said she'd take it no more and she prayed he understood


He didn′t take too kindly to being put in his place
She fled after the first blow and of course he gave chase
She sat hunched holding the gun praying she wasn't pursued
And as the door swung a ruby red fountain ensued
She watched in awe as his power cascaded on the floor
It wasn′t long before police came bursting through the door
In store for her a new prison, this one enforced by the law
As she let out a whisper with the strength of a roar

For the bad times I wish you'd just admit it
And never cast a shadow across my bed
But for the good times I wish you five minutes in heaven
Before the devil knows you′re dead
For the good times I cherish every beautiful second
As the bullet enters your head
But for the good times I wish you five minutes in heaven
Before the devil knows you're dead

Each night she lays shivering, quivering there
I wonder how we came to live in unforgiving despair
I find myself given to delivering stares
As the smell of Glenfiddich starts sieving the air

Each night she lays shivering, quivering there
I wonder how we came to live in unforgiving despair
I find myself given to delivering stares
As the smell of Glenfiddich starts sieving the air


As the bullet flew towards me I swear time stood still
I felt every single emotion that a man can feel
How did I get here? How can this even be real?
How'd I become the kind of person a loved one could kill?

I wasn′t always this way, I once saw love in those eyes
But now just despise and chastise all my lies
These new drunken guys, these sarcastic replies
And worst of all these heavy hands that surmise my demise

There was a time we thought the honeymoon wouldn′t end
She was my lover, my partner, my confidant and my friend
But it seems these days happiness can depend
On financial stability and the need to contend

But I make no excuse, I let it get this way
Other people live their lives on the minimum wage
I'm the one that buckled and let it turn to rage
So I′m the one looking down the barrel playing guess the gauge

So for the bad times I cannot be acquitted or let off
As the bullet enters my head
And for the good times I wish for five minutes in heaven
Before the devil knows I'm dead

For the bad times I should not be acquitted or let off
As the bullet enters my head
But for the good times I wish for five minutes in heaven
Before the devil knows I′m dead

Cheers

Thank you very much

It's all so heavy isn′t it?
Po Liver always tells me off for it all being so heavy
We did a gig, or any time I do new material at open mics
He'd always like have to weep
It's terrible
But I′ve got one light hearted one

And I′m gonna drop that in just about now
'Cause I predicted this would be the appropriate point
Where it′s starting to get a little bit awkward
And people are sitting there staring a little bit and yeah
So this is um, this is about when you
Like go to a nightclub or something
Or any night out and you bump into an ex
That you didn't really want to see
Or like if you′re with a new partner
It's even worse and incredibly awkward

But just yeah if you′re out and you see an
Ex you weren't expecting to see basically

It's called Rick′s Cafe American