Levi Stubbs' Tears lyrics

With the money from her accident she bought herself a mobile home

So at least she could get some enjoyment from being alone.

No one could say she was left up on the shelf.

It’s you and me against the world kid,

She mumbled to herself.

When the world falls apart some things stay in place

Levi Stubbs' tears run down his face

She ran away from home in her mother’s best coat.

She was married before she was even entitled to vote.

And her husband was one of those blokes,

The sort that always laughs at his own jokes,

The sort that war takes away,

And when there wasn’t a war he left anyway.

Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong

Are here to make everything right that’s wrong.

Holland and Holland and Lamont Dozier too

Are here to make it all okay with you.

And one dark night he came home from the sea

And put a hole in her body

Where no hole should be.

It hurt her more to see him walking out the door.

And though they stitched her back together

They left her heart in pieces on the floor.

When the world falls apart some things stay in place.

She takes off the Four Tops tape

And puts it back in its case.

When the world falls apart some things stay in place.

Levi Stubbs’ tears…

• Artist:Billy Bragg
• Album:Talking with the Taxman about Poetry (1986)