Days Before You Came, Black Market Music, (Placebo lyrics, explanations and press quotes)

Days Before You Came

Days before you came
Freezing cold and empty
Towns that change their name
And a horn of plenty

Days before you came
Counting breaths inside me
Even crack-cocaine
couldn't start to hide me

Won't you join me now?
Baby's looking torn and frayed
Join the masquerade
Join the masquerade

Won't you join me now?
Baby's looking to get laid
Join the masquerade
Join the masquerade.

Days before you came
It always seemed enticing
to be naked and profane
There is no denying

Days before you came
Thunderbolt and lightning
Each day a brand new vein
Each tourniquet colliding

I didn't want you anyway X4

Won't you join me now?
Baby's looking torn and frayed
Join the masquerade
Join the masquerade

Won't you join me now?
Baby's looking to get laid
Join the masquerade
Join the masquerade

Days before you came
Days before you came
Days before you came
Days before you

Days before you came
Days before you came
Days before you came
Days before you

I didn't want you anyway X 4

Press Quotes

"It isn't written about anyone in particular , it's a song for no one really. It's straightforward lyrically and you can read it as someone falling in love or even someone kicking a really intense drug habit. I think the provisional line in the song is 'I didn't want you anyway'..... about something taking over your life without you asking for it. Or if you have to give up something bad in your life, healthwise, it's not necessarily because you want to, it could be something as simple as cigarettes or something far more dangerous."

Brian Molko, Unknown magazine, 2000