Blur - The Story of the 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 didnt make him that way...

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; and he does the same to them
And when you put it all together:
Theres the model of a charmless man

He knows the swingers and their cavalry,
Says he 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 bleed
He doesnt see his days are tumbling
Down upon him
And yet he tries so hard to please
Hes just so keen for you to listen
But no-ones listening
And when you put it all together:
Theres the model of a charmless man