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I met him in a crowded room
Where people go to drink away their gloom
He sat me dawn and so began, the story of a charmless man
Educated the expensive way, he knows his Claret from a Beaujolais
I think he'd like to have been Ronnie Kray
But then nature didn't make him that way
He thinks he's educated, airs those family shares
Will protect him that we will respect him
He moves in circles of friends
Who just pretend that they like him
He does the same to them, and when you put it all together
There's the model of a charmless man
He knows the swingers and their cavalry
Says he can get in anywhere for free
I began to go a little cross eyed
And from this charmless man I just had to hide
He talks at speed he gets nosebleeds
He doesn't see his days
Are tumbling down upon him
And yet he tries so hard to please
He's just so keen for you to listen
But no one is listening
And when you put it all together
There's the model of a charmless man
Where people go to drink away their gloom
He sat me dawn and so began, the story of a charmless man
Educated the expensive way, he knows his Claret from a Beaujolais
I think he'd like to have been Ronnie Kray
But then nature didn't make him that way
He thinks he's educated, airs those family shares
Will protect him that we will respect him
He moves in circles of friends
Who just pretend that they like him
He does the same to them, and when you put it all together
There's the model of a charmless man
He knows the swingers and their cavalry
Says he can get in anywhere for free
I began to go a little cross eyed
And from this charmless man I just had to hide
He talks at speed he gets nosebleeds
He doesn't see his days
Are tumbling down upon him
And yet he tries so hard to please
He's just so keen for you to listen
But no one is listening
And when you put it all together
There's the model of a charmless man
Lyrics submitted by Demau Senae, edited by tpfang56, pastahero
Track duration: 03:34
"Charmless Man" as written by Damon/james Albarn
Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing
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"He thinks he's educated, airs those family shares
Will protect him"
For a variety of reasons that makes no sense (how does one "air shares"?). A simple fix straightens it out:
"He thinks his educated airs, those family shares
Will protect him"
He, incorrectly, thinks that his educated airs and those family shares will protect him. He's deluded.
prob'ly acts like a bigshot. I think that the song is funny be cause it sounds like Damon is making fun
of the charmless man! :D
There's a case to be made that the song is a dig at Morrissey, mostly through this couplet...
"I think he'd like to have been Ronnie Kray
But then nature didn't make him that way"
...which could point to Mozzer's obsession with the Krays. But the rest of the song doesn't seem to back it up.