Ballad of Grimaldi is the title of a song originally recorded by The Libertines for their Babyshambles sessions, in May 2003. Since then, the song has been recorded many times by Peter Doherty as a solo track, and was eventually released in August 2009 as a B Side to his second solo single, Broken Love Song, though it is credited to Doherty/Barat.
Ballad of Grimaldi has also been played live by Dirty Pretty Things and later solo by Carl Barat, who has introduced it as "one I wrote with Pete" and "an old song from a dirty little basement in Camden."
Broken Love Song | Peter Doherty | Single | 2009-08-03 |
L'Album De La Semaine | Peter Doherty | Session | 2009-03-02 |
Wet Your Whistle And Get Bombed | Babyshambles | Session | 2005 |
Shaking And Withdrawn Megamix | Peter Doherty | Session | 2004-08 |
Untitled Album | Peter Doherty | Session | 2004-04-08 |
The Freewheelin' Pete Doherty | Peter Doherty | Fan mixtape | 2004 |
The Liverpool Session | Peter Doherty | Session | 2004 |
La Maroquinerie (encore w/ Deadcuts) | Peter Doherty | Paris, France | 2013-02-05 |
La Maroquinerie | Peter Doherty | Paris, France | 2013-02-04 |
Le Cabaret Vert | Peter Doherty | Charleville-Mézières, France | 2011-08-27 |
Paleo Festival | Peter Doherty | Paleo Festival, Nyon, Swiss | 2009-07-24 |
Eurockéennes de Belfort | Peter Doherty | Malsaucy, France | 2009-07-04 |
Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline | Carl Barat | Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline | 2009-06-09 |
Botanique, Brussels | Peter Doherty | Botanique, Brussels | 2009-04-25 |
Live in Copenhagen | Peter Doherty | Copenhagen, Denmark | 2009-04-09 |
Popscene San Franscisco | Carl Barat | San Franscisco, US | 2009-01-08 |
The Mass | Peter Doherty | Brixton, London | 2008-06-17 |
The Torriano | Peter Doherty | Kentish Town, London | 2008-03-20 |
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While there's still a fighting chance
Can't you just get up and go
And get away from this hollow romance
It's slowly binding us both
Because you'll tell me what you want and I'll avoid it
Tell it to the sick and to the damned
Show me what you love, watch me destroy it
For love just crumbles in my hands
But if you stay for a while..
I'll try to think of something kind to say
And maybe if we pray for a while
St. Jude might hear my pleas
And see me on my knees
Because she knows how I adore you
We won't be fighting again tonight
Not if she knows I adore you
No fighting again tonight..
I laugh and fall just like Grimaldi
You wear your make-up like Baby Jane
All of those promising lies that you told me
Come on and tell me them again
Oh well, I walked these streets all of my life..
The fear and hope at every turn
She took him to Stepney and made him a wife
Oh you know yeah you know they'll crash and burn
Because she'll tell him what she wants and he'll avoid it
May as well tell it to the sick and to the damned
Show him what you love, watch him destroy it
For love seems to crumble in his hands
NameBallad of Grimaldi
BandPeter Doherty
CreditsCarl Barat
Peter Doherty
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