blur charmless man


i met him in a crowded room
where people go to drink away their gloom
he sat me down and so began
the story of a charmless man
educated the expensive way
he knows his claret from his beaujolais
i think he'd like to have been ronnie kray
but then nature didn't make him that way he went....

he thinks his educated airs
those family shares will protect him that
we'll 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
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 nose bleeds
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's listening

and when you put it all together
there's the model of a charmless man h
e thinks his educated airs
those family shares will protect him
that you'll respect him
and yet he tries so hard to please
he's just so keen for you to listen
but no-one's listening
and when you put it all together
there's the model of a charmless man