À rebours, à rebours

You sent for me

I was knock, knock knocking on death's door

You ignore, adore, À rebours me

You leave me washed up begging for more

If you really cared for me

Ah you'd let me be

You'd set me free

But what you rob me of is my

Oh poor me, is my liberty

The curtain was calling

"Au voleur" and à rebours

In the mirror bawling

If you want it so much you are gonna have it all

Ah if you really cared for me

Christ knows you'd let me be

You'd set me free

I'm too polite to say

I defy you all

You know twice as much as nothing at all

It's still nothing at all

I can't defy us all

Tides[Incomprehensible] are now turned and hammered it all

Hammered it all, oh, oh

Ah, no, ah no, ah no

I've been running round this world too much, girl

Pretending not to see

What's thrilling me is killing me

Oh no, I think I understand

What I misunderstood before

How your love gives me so much hope

I am free again, I can see again

But if I should fall

Would you vow today to pay tomorrow

The fuck off big debt I owe to sorrow

Ah, oh, sorrow, sorrow

Ah, oh, oh, sorrow, ah, no, ah no, ah no

À rebours, à rebours, à rebours