Cyclops

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Cyclops is the title of a Libertines song, credited to Doherty and Wolfe, and released as a B Side to The Libertines' fifth single, Can't Stand Me Now. Doherty said in BBC documentary, "Who the Fuck is Pete Doherty?," that Wolfe wrote the song about him ("How you annoy me / How you destroy me" ), and he, in return, wrote the song Wolfman about Wolfe.

In August 2004, Doherty wrote on the .org forum: "'slash-back razor days' comes from a poem by Wolfman, refers to when we recorded ' For Lovers' and we cut all our chests. Also Wolfy wrote the line 'how you annoy me' and 'seems to come so naturally' during the slow bits which incidentally were originally supposed to be in a song that we wrote trying to knock up another 'For Lovers'."

Appearing on

Can't Stand Me Now	The Libertines	Single	2004-08-09
Discarded Recordings	The Libertines	Session	2003
Monitor Mixes	The Libertines	Session	2003

Concerts

An Evening With Pete Doherty Pt.1	Peter Doherty	Hackney Empire, London	2007-04-12
Rhythm Factory	Peter Doherty	London (Whitechapel), UK	2004-07-13
Piss Me Off (At the Rhythm Factory)	The Libertines	London (Whitechapel), UK	2004-04-14

Lyrics

What you trying to do to me?
It seems to come so naturally
How you annoy me
How you destroy me

And everywhere I'm walking like a cyclone
But don't mind me
How's it fair?
I'm a magnet for psychos
And pretty riddlers keen on me

Your cat like eyes slink into my open, heavy, loving heart.
First touch and kissy kissy

Slash back razor days
The boys learn to behave
Wanted like hoodlums

Sick of themselves and sick of their slums
Give everybody a gun and put it on the
television
That's the reality TV I'd pay to see
Lobotomise, celebritise every damn freak
Wanna be another one I never come and see
Money's the church
fame is the steeple
Living on the town
Indoctrinate the people

What you trying to do to me?
It seems to come so naturally
How you annoy me
How you destroy me

And everywhere I'm walking like a cyclone
But don't mind me
First in there
Chased by a Cyclops
Living on my own
No ships at sea

I owe more than I know to faces who never show
The places
It's understood
I'll be yours tomorrow
Three bags full of sorrow
First touch and kissy kissy

Slash back razor days
The boys learn to behave

And everywhere I'm walking like a cyclone
But don't mind me
It's not fair
I'm a magnet for psychos
And pretty riddlers keen on me

Your cat like eyes slink into my open, heavy, loving heart.
First touch and there you are

Penny for the Cyclops
Nice weather for the Cyclops

What you trying to do to me?
What you trying to do to me?
You make me happy.