The Bartender and the Thief Lyrics
He's watching every word you say, yeah
Dazed
And when he's sussed you out
He calls her up and out she comes and hustles
Us
Long digging
Gone fishing
Love drinking
The bartender and the thief are lovers
Steal what they need like sisters and brothers
Met in a church a night to remember
Robbing the graves of bodies dismembered
He watched the lesbian talk
She kissed and groped but mostly talked in lust
Crushed
He couldn't make the call
His eyes were gripped on licking tongues
Enough's enough
Failed for once
Long digging
Gone fishing
Love drinking
Steal what they need like sisters and brothers
Met in a church a night to remember
Robbing the graves of bodies dismembered
Long digging
Gone fishing
Love drinking
The bartender and the thief are lovers
Steal what they need like sisters and brothers
Met in a church a night to remember
Robbing the graves of bodies dismembered
Saved what they stole to meet at the altar
Place where they first set eyes on each other
Flew to the sun to start life all over
Set up a bar and robbed all the locals
Dooooo doooooo doooo doooo doo dooooo doooo dooooo dooo
About
The Bartender and the Thief was the first single released from Stereophonics' second studio album Performance and Cocktails.
It was the band’s first Top 10 hit and peaked at #3 on the UK singles chart when released five months before its parent album.It is the fastest song on Performance and Cocktails and serves as remarkable fun for those who wanted a return to the Word Gets Around era of exhilarating rock bangers.
Known as one of the band’s heavier songs, Phonics frontman Kelly Jones uses the two bars before without vocals before the final chorus to reference the Motörhead song “Ace of Spades”. The lyrics therefore are “The ace of spades, the ace of spades. The bartender and the thief were lovers…” when the song is played live.
The song appears on the band’s 2008 greatest hits compilation Decade in the Sun.
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