The Road to Mandalay

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Robbie said: My favourite on the album is probably a song called ‘Road To Mandalay’. We started to write, I was doing this French television show and then because we were… Read More

Jul. 9, 20011 viewer18.4K views

The Road to Mandalay Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Save me from drowning in the sea
Beat me up on the beach
What a lovely holiday
There's nothing funny left to say
This sombre song would drain the sun
But it won't shine until it's sung
No water running in the stream
The saddest place we've ever seen

[Chorus]
Everything I touched was golden
Everything I loved got broken
On the road to Mandalay
Every mistake I've ever made
Has been rehashed and then replayed
As I got lost along the way

[Post-Chorus]
Bom bom bom ba da dup bom bom
Bom bom bom ba da dup bom bom
Bom bom bom ba da dup bom bom
Bom badom

[Verse 2]
There's nothing left for you to give
The truth is all that you're left with
Twenty paces then at dawn
We will die and be reborn
I like to sleep beneath the trees
Have the universe at one with me
Look down the barrel of a gun
And feel the moon replace the sun

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[Chorus]
Everything we've ever stolen
Has been lost, returned or broken
No more dragons left to slay
Every mistake I've ever made
Has been rehashed and then replayed
As I got lost along the way

[Post-Chorus]
Bom bom bom ba da dup bom bom
Bom bom bom ba da dup bom bom
Bom bom bom ba da dup bom bom
Bom badom
Bom bom bom ba da dup bom bom
Bom bom bom ba da dup bom bom
Bom bom bom ba da dup bom bom
Bom badom
Bom bom bom ba da dup bom bom
Bom bom bom ba da dup bom bom
Bom bom bom ba da dup bom bom
Bom badom

[Outro]
Save me from drowning in the sea
Beat me up on the beach
What a lovely holiday
There's nothing funny left to say

[Hidden]
No, I'm not doing one on this album

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Robbie said:

My favourite on the album is probably a song called ‘Road To Mandalay’. We started to write, I was doing this French television show and then because we were in France I don’t know, I just picked up on French vibes and started singing a French sort of melody. ‘Save me from drowning in the sea, beat me up on the beach’. And then it’s turned out to be the most, for me, touching song that I’ve written. ‘Everything [I’ve] ever stolen has been lost, returned or broken, no more dragons left to slay’. It’s one of those songs that you go this is really sad, but it’s dead positive at the same time.