You can tell me your troubles
I'll listen for free
My regulars trust me, it seems
You can come and see Uncle
To get through the week
Leave your pledges with me to r edeem
Some folk sell their bodies
For ten bob a go
Politi cians go pawning their sou ls
Which doesn't make me
Look too bad, don't you kno w me
With my heart full of holes
All my yesterdays broken
A watch with no face
All battered a nd old
Bits of the movement
All over the plac e
And a heart full of holes
A heart full of holes
A heart full of holes
A heart full of holes
A heart full of holes
Brass knuckles and banjos
Are out on the town
At the knees-up
In Teddy Boys'Row
The gold block and tackle
Tells the time upside down
Rock n'roll, well, I don't know
Dead people's wedding gifts
Walk out the door
A clarinet squeals to b e free
Ac cordions hop
From the sh elves to the f loor
Start pl aying their polkas to me
There's a ringing of bells
A dunderhead's curse
Fingers are pointing at yo u
And you take work in hell
And be glad it's not worse
And you get to the back of the queue
Handcuffs and hunting knives
Clang on the bars
Air pistols shoot out th e lights
I've a whole Wailing Wall
Of electric g uitars
Could sh atter the windows
Down Brick Lane tonight
If one of us dies, love
I think I'll r etire
See my boys and my beautiful girl s
A Garden of Eden
No gates or barbed wire
Who knows, maybe gates made of pearls
Well, if we go to heaven
And some say we don't
But if there's a reckoning da y
Please God, I'll see you
And maybe I won't
I've a bag packed to go either way
Redeeming your pledge, dear
I'll keep it for you
It's not going to go anywher e
But your soul, your soul
That is not what I do
There's not a lot I can do there
I rem ember the officer's wa tch
In my hand
"Rep air it or die" I wa s told
It's a w onder to me
I still don't under stand
Why I ever survived to be old
With a heart full of h oles
A heart full of hole s
A heart full of holes
A heart full of hole s
A heart full of holes
A heart full of hole s
A heart full of holes
A heart full of hole s
