It was a cool summer night
the kind that i can easily bear
and i was on my way down to the bar
to meet you there
and as i was passing by the off-license
I heard it drifting by on the breeze
"Hey isn't that the guy from the Dead Men's Trilbys?"
I said "We're two fo a kind
we're two of a kind
we're two of a kind
baby what I say"
In the middle of winter
I was out in the frost
and I was walking around the town
completely lost
and as my nose went blue
and my face began to freeze
I heard "Hey isn't that the guy from the Dead Men's Trilbys?"
I said "Shiela, I wanna feel ya
I wanna cheese ya
I'm gonna freeze ya"
One time i was out on the hill
in somewhere that i did not elect
but the drinks in the union are cheap
and i did not expect
this girl to come right up to me
and say "Hey you, excuse me please
but aren't you the guy from the Dead Men's Trilbys?"
I said "I like the way you walk
and I like the way you talk
and I really love the way you smile"
This guy picked a fight with me
because he said i was looking at him funny
and I said "Well hold up there and just
wait a minute buddy"
He said "We should settle this
or do you take me for a fool?"
and i said "I may be weak and I may be small
but i will beat you at online pool"
and as he hit me in the stomach
and i fell down to my knees
he said "I hate you and I hate the Dead Men's Trilbys"
I said "Misery, stop tormenting me
Can't you see you're doing me no good?
Misery, stop tormenting me
You're tearing holes where dreams once stood"
I forsee a day when we are older
and the children of today
are the teenagers of tomorrow
and i will hear them when they say
as they stand in independent record shop
and look at Ben's CDs and Dave's CDs and Joe's CDs
"Hey I recognise that guy from back in the noughties
Hey isn't that the guy from the Dead Men's Trilbys?"
And doctors will say, as they diagnose disease,
"I don't know how to tell you this sir, but you have Dead Men's Trilbys"
(Well you had it coming, man I told you straight
You had it coming, I told you yesterday
There's things that you do and things that you don't
but temptation, she led you astray
So you had it coming and I told you yesterday
Yeah I told you yesterday)
