The Stranglers - 2.04 - Dagenham Dave

This is the fourth track of the album "No more heroes", which was released in 1977.

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Dagenham Dave

Dave was from out of town,

Manchester's likely too,

Had read De Sade to Marx,

More read than me and you.

Scaffolding pays good bread,

It pays for drugs and kicks,

Dave only had one love,

Had no real need for chicks,

Dave was so far ahead,

But now he's dead.

I'm not going to cry,

I bet he hit that water high.

I guess he lost control

And welcomed in the night.

It was too much for him.

What were his thoughts that night?

The River Thames is cold,

It keeps on flowing on,

But it left Dave alone,

It just kept flowing on.

There's city sickness here,

But now he's dead.

Late night a street in the west of the city

There was a place there where he lost himself,

Strange feelings did he feel there,

Strange people did he meet there,

Angry sounds did he hear there,

Like the howling of bulls.