I Hate It Here (The Lakes - Live from Cardiff)

[Part I: I Hate It Here] [Verse] Quick, quick Tell me something awful Like you are a poet trapped inside the body of a finance guy Tell me all your secrets All you'll ever be is My eternal consolation prize You see I was a debutant in another life but Now I seem to be scared to go outside If comfort is a construct I don't believe in good luck Now that I know what's what [Chorus] I hate it here so I will go to Secret gardens in my mind People need a key to get to The only one is mine I read about it in a book when I was a precocious child No mid-sized city hopes and small town fears I'm there most of the year Cause I hate it here I hate it here [Part II: the lakes] [Verse] Is it romantic how all my elegies eulogize me? I'm not cut out for all these cynical clones These hunters with cell phones [Chorus] Take me to the lakes where all the poets went to die I don't belong, my beloved, neither do you Those Windermere peaks look like a perfect place to cry I'm setting off, but not without my muse [Part III: I Hate It Here] [Bridge] I'm lonely but I'm good I'm bitter but I swear I'm fine I'll save all my romanticism for my inner life and I'll get lost on Purpose This place made me feel worthless Lucid dreams like electricity, the current flies through me And in my fantasies I rise above it And way up there, I actually love it [Part IV: the lakes] [Bridge] A red rose grew up out of ice frozen ground With no one around to tweet it While I bathe in cliffside pools With my calamitous love and insurmountable grief [Chorus] Take me to the lakes where all the poets went to die 'Cause I don't belong, my beloved, neither do you Those Windermere peaks look like a perfect place to cry I'm setting off, but not without my muse [Spoken Interruption] [Part V: I Hate It Here / the lakes] [Chorus] I hate it here so I will go to Secret gardens in my mind People need a key to get to The only one is mine I read about it in a book when I was a precocious child No mid-sized city hopes and small town fears I hate it here so I will go to Lunar valleys in my mind When they found a better planet Only the gentle survived I dreamed about it in the dark The night I felt that I might die No mid-sized city hopes and small town fears I'm here most of the year Cause I hate it here [Outro] So, take me to the lakes I hate it here, so take me to the lakes Take me to the lakes Where all of the poets went to die, I don't belong My beloved neither to you Those Windermere peaks, look like a perfect place to cry So, I'm setting off, but not without my muse No, not without you