Blue heaven lyrics

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