Papa Won't Leave You, Henry (Live at Alexandra Palace, 2020)

I went out walking the other day The wind hung wet around my neck My head it rung with screams and groans From the night I spent amongst her bones And I passed beside the mission house Where that mad old buzzard, the reverend Shrieked and flapped about life after your dead Well, I thought about my friend, Michel How they rolled him in linoleum And shot him in the neck Chorus Well, Papa won't leave you, Henry Papa won't leavе you, Boy Papa won't leave you, Henry Papa won't lеave you, Boy Well, the road is long And the road is hard And a many fall by the side Well, Papa won't leave you, Henry So there ain't no need to cry And I went on down the road Verse 2 And I came upon a little house A little house upon a hill And I entered through and the curtain hissed Into the house with its blood-red bowels Where wet-lipped women with greasy fists Crawled the ceilings and the walls And they filled me full of drink And they led me round the rooms Naked and cold and grinning Until everything went black And I came down spinning I awoke so drunk and full of rage That I could hardly speak A fag in a whalebone corset Draping his dick across my cheek Well its into the shame And its into a guilt And its into the fucking fray And the walls ran red around me A warm arterial spray Saying: Chorus Papa won't leave you, Henry Papa won't leave you, Boy Papa won't leave you, Henry Papa won't leave you, Boy Well, the night is dark And the night is deep And its jaws are open wide Yeah well, Papa won't leave you, Henry There ain't no need to cry And I went on down the road Verse 3 It's the rainy season where I'm living Death comes leaping out of every doorway Wasting you for money, for your clothes And for your nothing Entire towns being washed away Favelas exploding on inflammable spillways And the lynch-mobs, death squads, babies being born without brains The mad heats and the relentless rains The mad heats and the relentless rains And with her kisses bubbling on my lips I swiped the rain and nearly missed And then I went on down the road Chorus Papa won't leave you, Henry Papa won't leave you, Boy Papa won't leave you, Henry Papa won't leave you, Boy Well, the road is long And the road is hard And many fall by the side Well then, Papa won't leave you, Henry So there ain't no need to cry And I went on down the road Yeah, I went on down the road Yeah, bent Beneath my heavy load And I went on down that road