The Beautiful South - Painting It Red

Baby Please Go

You've heard it said a thousand times
But only heard his Broadway lines
So, baby please go
Ain't, ain't part of the show

'Cause when Romeo needs no cue or prompt
The likelier your little heart be stomped
By, by baby don't go
Written, written in to his show

'Cause in the west-end show your life
Played understudy to every part
Got given all the dullest lines
Whilst the chorus girls danced on your heart

Baby please go (Baby please go)
Baby please go (Baby please go)

The sorry tale we'd all applaud
That only dripped and never poured
But, baby just go
Let him, let him on with his show

The leading snail leaves tell tale lines
The bullshit tower the loudest chimes
But, baby please go
Ain't, ain't part of the show

'Cause in the west-end show your life
Played understudy to every part
Got given all the dullest lines
Whilst the chorus girls danced on your heart

Baby please go (Baby please go)
Baby please go (Baby please go)

Romantic love lines that we adored (Baby forget them)
They were read by men from idiot board (Baby forget them)
So a message from the wisest guy to broad
Is best like flattery ignored

Baby just let him go
Let him on with the show
Baby just let him go
Let him on with the show



Credits
Writer(s): Dave Rotheray, Paul Heaton
Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
Link

Other Album Tracks

  1. Who's Gonna Tell?
  2. Closer Than Most
  3. Just Checkin'
  4. Hit Parade
  5. Masculine Eclipse
  6. 'Til You Can't Tuck It In
  7. If We Crawl
  8. Tupperware Queen
  9. Half-Hearted Get (Is Second Best)
  10. The River

All Album Tracks: Painting It Red >

Altri album

  1. The Beautiful South: Live At the BBC
  2. Live At The BBC
  3. The Beautiful South: The BBC Sessions
  4. The BBC Sessions
  5. The BBC Sessions (BBC Version)
  6. The Rose of My Cologne
  7. Superbi
  8. Manchester
  9. The Beautiful South: Gold
  10. The Beautiful South - Gold (International Version)

All Albums of The Beautiful South >

© 2025 All rights reserved. Rockol.com S.r.l. Website image policy

Rockol

  • Rockol only uses images and photos made available for promotional purposes (“for press use”) by record companies, artist managements and p.r. agencies.
  • Said images are used to exert a right to report and a finality of the criticism, in a degraded mode compliant to copyright laws, and exclusively inclosed in our own informative content.
  • Only non-exclusive images addressed to newspaper use and, in general, copyright-free are accepted.
  • Live photos are published when licensed by photographers whose copyright is quoted.
  • Rockol is available to pay the right holder a fair fee should a published image’s author be unknown at the time of publishing.

Feedback

Please immediately report the presence of images possibly not compliant with the above cases so as to quickly verify an improper use: where confirmed, we would immediately proceed to their removal.