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“"We've had death threats", Pete says, "saying, 'You're evil and your days are numbered." What was it, "Don't panic but be scared". Someone shat on our doorstep once and nailed a sparrow to our basement door. I don't mind, me. I'll out-weird any stalker.”

Pete Doherty

On the downside of fame, NME (New Musical Express), March 13, 2004
People

Death , Evil

“They've been around me since day one, but so has corduroy. Know what I mean? Drugs don't create the sound - they might just change the pitch slightly. Or make you spell a word wrong.”

Pete Doherty

Loaded Magazine, August 2008
Drugs

Change

“She was getting pally with a scally in the alley
Giving head for gear
She called a spade a spade
Got slit from ear to ear
I showed no decorum
Spilled my heart out on the forum
Like a snapshot of the most tragic day
Carl is kept sedated, for the frontman elevated
While McGee does all he can to ruin my band and keep me out the way
In this industry of fools, musclemen and ghouls
If you're not a puppet or a muppet then you might as well call it a day
The truth gets so distorted
The wall scrapings get snorted
I'm welcome back if I give up crack
But you gave me my first pipe anyway”

Pete Doherty

"Gang of Gin" (never released owing to threats of legal action by pop mogul Alan McGee)
Lyrics and poetry

Truth , Fools , Way , Heart

“I fall in love with Britain every day, with bridges, buses, blue skies… but it’s a brutal world, man.”

Pete Doherty

Metro, August 25, 2006
Britain

Love , World

“Once upon a time…
When the cold wind that blows,
when the cold wind that blows in my heart,
it was a summer breeze and she would meet me in Chinatown,
for opium and tea
and she always brought me flowers
but I spared you those old ballads
All those songs I couldn’t play
But every giro day she’d dress me like a lady boy
And take me high out of the way
Don’t let the horse chase the new deal away, no
If we make love in the morning
I see your eyes look like two marbles in your head”

Pete Doherty

"Lady Don't Fall Backwards"
Lyrics and poetry

Love , Making love , Way , Boy

“There's a man who came to stay
The boy he replaced, disappeared without a trace.
Stole all my songs and my style away
No-one would say what they wanted to say
So he was king for a day.
If you sail into the sun
Beware the eyes of green
And if the whole world tells you 'you are the one'
I defy you not to believe them, my son…”

Pete Doherty

"The Man Who Came to Stay"
Lyrics and poetry

World , Boy , Sun

“You've got to understand… these days I just can't afford to get involved [with the press]. People - they turn on you… on me. They write horrible things, deliberately twisting my words.”

Pete Doherty

On his growing wariness in talking to the media, Spin Magazine, Autumn 2007.
People

People , Understanding

“If you get tired of just hanging around
Pick up a guitar, spin a web of sound
And then you could be strung out all day
With lovers and clowns
Now I find myself still hanging around”

Pete Doherty

"Ha Ha Wall"(with Carl Barat)
Lyrics and poetry

Lovers

“Basically, too many other people made important decisions for us and we just wrote songs and worried about clothes and girls. In the early days he came round once with this girl who had convinced him that I was just a weirdo and that we had an unhealthy relationship. He sat me down and said, “Maybe we shouldn’t see so much of each other? Maybe we should knock the band on the head? It’s not really going anywhere, is it?" I was desperate for us to stick together and see it through because I never stopped believing. When we got signed, Carl was shocked. I had prepared myself and had been reading the NME since I was 16. Carl wasn’t like that.”

Pete Doherty

Mail On Sunday, September 2008
Carl Barat

People , Girl , Decision , Reading

“Something good has happened to us. We are, dare I say it, a professional unit these days. When people get us in a room together now, they actually treat us like musicians. Before, they would treat us as anything but: pigeon fanciers, candles, dry humpers…”

Pete Doherty

Talking about Babyshambles to Spin Magazine, Autumn 2007
Definitions and objects

People

“Don't let the tide of your sorrow
Drown your nights and flood your days”

Pete Doherty

"Don't Be Shy"(with Carl Barat)
Lyrics and poetry

Night

“You should get some sun on your face
We've been sitting like a lord in the bath for days
It's getting like I don't even know you”

Pete Doherty

"Merrygoround (That Bowery Song)"
Lyrics and poetry

Sun