(If There's) No Hope For Us - Arab Strap

now they’re ugly violent thugs

how did our language come to this

we speak in grunts and sighs and shrugs

when we never let used to let

just one spare moment go to waste

now you’re hardly ever here

and when you are you’re bored and chaste

so when did you decide that i was vile?

i’ve tried and tried to talk

but talkings never been your style

you say you think we’ll still be friends

but we both know that we won’t

and your mates all laugh and smile

as if they know something I don’t

and every night a taxi

softly sweeps you up our street

you used to say you broke your phone

now you don’t care if you’re descreet

so why wont you just tell me who was there?

there’s a buzz about you now

there’s something funny in the air

if there’s no hope for use then there’s no hope for anyone

what chance can they have if even you and me just can’t have fun?

was it so long ago our friends said we were disgraceful

but how could they ever know that we could be so unfaithful

you weren’t wearing much of note

just hold-ups and your long white coat

the elctric fire lit up your skin

as we whispered cos your mum was in and as we went to use the phone

we noticed that we weren’t alone

we just shrugged and let the pervert see

what he could only hope to be but that was in the haze of new romance

when we floated hand in hand right through it’s vague deceitful trance

if there’s no hope for use then there’s no hope for anyone

what chance can they have if even you and me just can’t have fun?

was it so long ago our friends said we were disgraceful

but how could they ever know that we could be so unfaithful

that’s me then, I’m all packed you know I need some time to think

you just take what you think you’ll need I think we both might need a drink

and the secrets that I keep you know I keep because I care

but if there’s no hope left for use, well darling, let’s just leave it there