ooh, let me take a candle to a cellar tonight

and I'd like to take some matches [there/then] and set it alight

I can't, 'cause I've seen those kind of places before



ooh, I'd like to have a party in a cellar tonight

and I'd love to have a party but it wouldn't be right

I shan't, 'cause I've seen those kind of people before



I won the war in the sitting room

I won the war but it cost me

I won the war and I feel proud

but I don't know why it's hard to get to sleep in my house



ooh, I have to pull the blankets up to cover my head

and I have to pull the blankets right up

but I don't know why it's hard to get to sleep in my house



well you keep following the funeral pyre

and it's not difficult to see that you're

young and selfish, and liberty and money, don't go



don't go...



let me take a candle to a cellar tonight

yeah, you should see the parties we've had before

gimme the time, gimme the time

gimme the watchword, gimme whatever you like

([soon we'll be free])



I won the war in the sitting room

I won the war but it cost me

I won the war and I feel proud

but God only knows why it's hard to get to sleep in my house



ooh [your scheme is in your smile]

ooh [you sleep and sin in your Soho hole]



well you keep following the funeral pyre

it's not difficult to see that you're

beautiful and young, and [critical of] nothing



and you keep following the funeral pyre

it's not difficult to see that you're

beautiful and young, and liberty and money, don't go