Pete Doherty: Quotes about love

“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

“There are fewer more distressing sights
than that of an Englishman in a baseball cap
Yeah, we'll die in the class we were born
That's a class of our own, my love”

Pete Doherty

"Time for Heroes"(with Carl Barat)
Lyrics and poetry

Love

“There's a slow train rumbling east of a place called Eden
Feeling wind-blown and proud as the trees upon the plain
And a stranger's voice talked to me of liberty and freedom
Yeah, it seems like he done gone wrong again
And he wears that hat like shame
Well he tasted the fruit of another
And when his Margie, when she discovered
Said she's gonna love him ten times more
Ain't nobody's business if she do”

Pete Doherty

"East of Eden"
Lyrics and poetry

Love , Feeling , Business , Tree

“Oh promises, promises
I know you've heard them all before
Love is, love is, love is, love is, love is…

Oh well, it's just around the corner”

Pete Doherty

"Back From The Dead"
Lyrics and poetry

Love

“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

“It's that mysterious thing called hype. I've looked under every rock, and I couldn't find out what it means. Certain people hear a certain melody, and they're attracted to it. I'm in love with that feeling. We're looking for fun and adventure and a bit of redemption and somewhere to live. Everything else is a blind venture into the unknown.”

Pete Doherty

Definitions and objects

Love , People , Feeling

“If you've lost your faith in love and music
The end won't be long
But if it's gone for you I too may lose it
And that would be wrong…”

Pete Doherty

"The Good Old Days" (with Carl Barat)
Lyrics and poetry

Love , Faith , Music

“"Each man kills the things he loves". I recognise that in myself, in relationships, even with guitars, beautiful things that I've had and wilfully destroyed.”

Pete Doherty

Definitions and objects

Love , Beauty

“I was a troubled teen
Who put an advert in a magazine
To the annoyance of my imaginary lover
She doubted my integrity
And this is what she said to me:
She said, "Oh, you, you're green
You don't know what love means
Well, let me tell you”

Pete Doherty

"I Love You (But You're Green)"
Lyrics and poetry

Love , Lovers

“I got headbutted in Wolverhampton. You [Carl] get snogged in Northampton, head butted in Wolverhampton and I won't even tell you what happened in Southampton. Basically Carlos gets the love and I get all the head butts, it seems to be the way of things.”

Pete Doherty

2002
Carl Barat

Love , Way

“Music when the lights go out
Love goes cold in shades of doubt
The strange face in my mind is all too clear
Music when the lights come on
The girl I thought I knew has gone
And with her my heart has disappeared”

Pete Doherty

"Music When the Lights Go Out" (with Carl Barat)
Lyrics and poetry

Love , Music , Girl , Light

“The Thames and the Mersey, the Tyne and the Wear and the Clyde
They spew slums like gravy on the banks of the poisonous tide
They washed up a pale thin girl
Alone in her ivory tower
Scratching her skin with the thorns that grow
On the stems of the wild flowers
What became of the love we knew?
We beat the swine black and blue
You and I
Me and you
What became of the love we knew?
What became of the working class?
Nike, Reebok, Adidas
Scratchcards, pitbulls, ecstasy
Hooray for the 21st Century”

Pete Doherty

"Hooray for the 21st Century"
Lyrics and poetry

Love , Girl , Flowers , Swine

“I realise it’s proved to people that I don’t love them. It’s dawning on me now that if I say I love someone… it’s like lying, really. As long as I’m taking it, the lie continues. I’ve got a lot of proving myself to do.”

Pete Doherty

The Sunday Times, May 14, 2006
Drugs

Love , People , Lie , Lying

“Each man kills the things he loves.”

Pete Doherty

I recognise that in myself, in relationships, even with guitars, beautiful things that I've had and wilfully destroyed.
Definitions and objects

Love , Making love