prettyshambeltine:

“Carl wrote a couple of – can I use the word ‘couplets?’ Will I get stoned in public for using that word,” Doherty says with evident sarcasm. “And I actually sing them, so I’ll get the glory, and they’re an incredible couple of lines. I actually wept. They go: ‘In my cinematic mind, I see battles fought at sea/I wake from dawn’s empire, it must be lonely being you, being me.’”

Without hearing the rest of the song, it’s hard to divine the overall meaning of that lyric. But Barât acknowledges that it references he and Doherty’s relationship, albeit (it seems) filtered through their familiar interests in military history, a faith in a mythical Britain they style as Albion and a love of romantic imagery.

The Libertines put strife behind them for T in the Park 2015