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Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Never been so dumb as I was with you
Maybe I was young but I always knew
Maybe I surrender to compromise
But I can still remember those April skies
Irresistible
Racing beyond the pleasure principle
If we’re being psychoanalytical
It’s unthinkable
Inexplicable
That you’re not here
Never thought that you could ever be afraid
Every rendezvous was like an escapade
You would overtake ‘cause you had the drive
Left me in your wake when you arrived
Irresistible
Racing beyond the pleasure principle
If we’re being psychoanalytical
It’s unthinkable
Inexplicable
That you’re not here
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Lip Servant
03:07
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Lip Servant
Since they told me I was different
I haven’t been the same
Since they told me I was innocent
I have taken all the blame
Since they told me I was radio
I have been up on the screen
And if you’re ready for a cameo
I know how to make a scene
You want some lip service
I’ll be your lip servant
You pay me lip service
I’ll be your lip servant
Since they told me I was babbling
I can speak another tongue
Now I’m gonna go a travelling
And I know you wanna come
You want some lip service
I’ll be your lip servant
You pay me lip service
I’ll be your lip servant
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Immortelle
04:49
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Immortelle
In media res
Where we digress
Café Express
Where you confess
Every eyeroll
Surrounded by kohl
The humour is droll
The furs are all stole
Everyone knows
Pecuniary woes
The cons in the prose
But all the right clothes
Memories fade
With glories unmade
Opinions are weighed
Executions are stayed
I’m under your spell, Immortelle
But you never knew me
I’m under your spell, Immortelle
I lie where I fell, Immortelle
But you look right through me
When I visit your cell, Immortelle
Immortelle
Roses are few
Violets are slew
It couldn’t be you
Not in those shoes
Under addressed
You seek to bequest
You write to be left
A roman-à-clef
I’m under your spell, Immortelle
But you never knew me
I’m under your spell, Immortelle
I lie where I fell, Immortelle
But you look right through me
When I visit your cell, Immortelle
Immortelle
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Zodiac Carousel
04:33
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Zodiac Carousel
I’m on the street
Where you used to dwell
Those lilac trees
Haven’t fared too well
And all the stars have faded
In the zodiac carousel
I never think about you
Or reminisce about you
I’m not reliving my youth
Like some old fool
I always find
That I lose myself
But you’re a lie
That I couldn’t sell
And all the stars have faded
In the zodiac carousel
I never think about you
Or reminisce about you
I’m not reliving my youth
Like some old fool
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A Tale as Old as Time
04:14
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A Tale as Old as Time
Riding through the marshes upon a silver steed
A young man sees a maiden with a rose among the reeds
‘Where did she get this flower? A common thief is she’
‘Oh no you are mistaken, this rose belongs to me’
The young man’s name was Tam Lin, he said he was not free
‘I live in subjugation unto the Faerie Queen,
Only the love of someone as bold and brave as thee
Can break the spell upon me and restore my liberty’
Later in the evening, the night was Hallowe’en
The lady did return there among the Ettrick reeds
But there instead of Tam Lin she found the Faerie Queen
‘You’re not the first young maiden that Tam Lin has deceived’
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Spectres of Marx and Coca Cola
Don’t get too comfortable
There’s a depression on the way
You think you’re inculpable
But you’re surrounded by decay
Bodies of literature
Have some surprising things to say
About ghostly allure
And an imagined yesterday
Now there’s nothing to claim
There’s never been that much demand
And, well, I could explain
But I don’t think you’d understand
Nineteen sixty-eight
Just a poster on a wall
Now who would contemplate
Demanding the impossible
She’s on the road somewhere
Destination I don’t know
She melts into the air
Who knows which way the wind will blow
Now there’s nothing to claim
There’s never been that much demand
And, well, I could explain
But I don’t think you’d understand
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Velvet Season
03:42
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Velvet Season
This is the time
The velvet season
The evening of the day
Is there a rhyme
Is there a reason
Or do we fade away
There’s a sense of reprise
Why pretend otherwise
This is the time
The velvet season
The evening of the day
Is there a rhyme
Is there a reason
Or do we fade away
You know the fact is fiction is all we have to say
If you lack conviction that just means you didn’t pay
And we return to the place
That we yearn to escape
This is the time
The velvet season
The evening of the day
Is there a rhyme
Is there a reason
Or do we fade away
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Transportable Subway Entrance (Crushed)
The bills in the hallway
Who are they for
The wolf and the landlord
Are both at the door
You call up your mother
She just says good luck
And that’s when it hits you
That’s when you know you’re fucked
You head to the country
But it’s gone up in flames
It’s in all the papers
They say it’s a shame
The expert opinion
Is that yeah this sucks
And that’s when it hits you
Everything is fucked
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Succès de Scandale
05:04
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Succès de Scandale
Irascible
Intractable
Implacable
Contempt for all convention
With jealousy
And infamy
Your destiny
You’ll never find redemption
Nothing to be won
Everything is done
But if you ever feel alone
My number’s inside your phone
If you’ve got enough success
And you want to clean this mess
If you ever leave this hell
My number’s inside your cell
So call me even if you’re fine
There’s another storyline
To tell me when you’ve done your time
So scandalous
So ravenous
So crapulous
So lost in dissolution
Pathology
Neurology
Mythology
Won’t bring you absolution
Nothing to be won
Everything is done
But if you ever feel alone
My number’s inside your phone
If you’ve got enough success
And you want to clean this mess
If you ever leave this hell
My number’s inside your cell
So call me even if you’re fine
There’s another storyline
To tell me when you’ve done your time
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This Could Almost Be the End
In our final conversation
There’s nothing left to comprehend
The train has never left the station
And there’s no mountain to ascend
There is no way to express this
That doesn’t sound like a lament
Now I always feel so restless
But I guess that’s evident
In a moment of forgiving
We believe and we suspend
There’s a time for new beginnings
But this could almost be the end
You say that hope is a horizon
That you never could transcend
So I don’t find it so surprising
That we’re in this place again
I’m tiring of my own resentments
But that don’t mean that we are friends
Though if you had been in attendance
At least I think I could pretend
In a moment of forgiving
We believe and we suspend
There’s a time for new beginnings
But this could almost be the end
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