The Libertines Anthem for Doomed Youth lyrics

Here's a story
about the rules of death or glory
to be learned by heart by all children of men
It's the hour of the morning
on the day after the dawning
when the sun they said would never set finally set again

Was it Cromwell or Orwell
who first led you to the stairwell
which leads only forever to Kingdom Come?
Rushed along by guiding hands
whispers of the promised land
then wished you luck and handed you a gun

Life could be so handsome,
life could be so gay
We're going nowhere
but nowhere, nowhere's on our way

In the pub that night
racking out the lines of shite
plotting to right all of the world's great wrongs
Yes we thought that they were brothers
then they half murdered each other
then they did a karaoke turn and murdered our best song

Told the guv'nors wife
about the last night of his life,
she turned away in tears called you a liar

Where are all the old dreams now
the battalions once so proud?
Lost in some old song and hanging on the old barbed wire

Life could be so handsome
It's all going to be OK
We're going nowhere
but nowhere, nowhere's on our way

Nowhere in the Institutions
do they teach the revolution
or something that could ever come to pass
Oh, we tried one once before
was the King's head on the floor
we got booted out the boozer 'cause someone smashed a glass

Life could be so handsome
Life could be OK
We're going nowhere
but nowhere, nowhere's on our way
Life could be so handsome
It's all going to be OK
We're going nowhere
'cause nowhere, nowhere's on our way
Nowhere's on our way...