1. History’s so strong   History’s so strong   History’s so strong   History’s so strong   Sing another drinking song the honky tonk will do   Make another breaking bomb your favorite ingénue   This the distant dawn   This the distant dawn   Pre-Chorus I put my cards up on the table   I do this speak cause I am able   One pixie’s broken down devotion   I threw my pistol in the ocean   Eyes wide with revelation   Shine at the police station   And when the verdict comes round I’m sure that you will go down   Chorus Stay all night we’ll save the population... (4x) 2. Pistol and its pawn   Sail it through the lexicon   Pistol and its pawn   Blood and borderlines be drawn   Take another bottle down the brothel and the shrew   Make another awful sound a rather gothic brew   History’s so strong   History’s so strong   Pre-Chorus                      I put my cards up on the table   I do this speak cause I am able   One pixie’s broken down devotion   I threw my pistol in the ocean   Eyes wide with revelation   Shine at the police station   And when the verdict comes round I’m sure that you will go down   Chorus                          Stay all night we’ll save the population... (4x)