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Berlin is a Bugger’s Daydream
After I went down from Oxford and a 3rd class honours degree
My father paid for my allowance to live in Germany
I met you at your Berlin lodgings and we talked all night long
God is your unconscious desires, don’t let the Devil control them
I would rather the adolescent boys of the Berlin bars and cafes
I like sex and Peppy likes money – it’s a good exchange
You were shocked, then ashamed that you’d been shocked at all
God is your unconscious desires, don’t let the Devil control them
CHORUS
Berlin is a bugger’s daydream, darling Christopher
Darling Christopher Berlin delivers me, I’m in a bugger’s daydream
Dominated by my mother and nourished by repression
The trick of desire stops those I love from coming to my bedroom
Heterosexual love is so tame and I’m a tormented bugger
Requited love is like despair, oh how one likes to suffer
Peppy is a juvenile delinquent and the heart of the rugby scrum
Peppy my petal he’s all that and Josephine Baker in one
We make DH Lawrence look blue; it always ends in blows
It’s a pillow fight first then escalates and off to bed we go
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I used to drink on the job
With the gays, drags and trannies
I’m a barman at the swingers’ club
And I’m ready for action
Busting from her dress in her melon tits
I’m hard as a horse, Im supposed to be on shift
Let’s go to the maze with glory holes
If I stick my dick in maybe she’ll blow me
Straight edge at the swingers’ bar
Only way to be, I’m here for a blast
Straight edge at the swingers’ bar
I’m dynamite if you push me too far
I reach for her pussy, I feel hard cock
She’s ready to go but I have to stop
I thought you were a girl now I’m not so sure
Yes I am a girl but so much more
You ain’t got no pussy, she says don’t stop
My arsehole’s a pussy waiting for your cock
Try me out she says I’ll suck your dick
I can suck it better than any chick
Hiding in the fridge nowhere to escape
I know a male stripper owes me a favour
He’s happy to help, feeling fruity
She’ll squeeze his orange, suck his juices
Took the heat off me but I’m over-ripe
My banana’s a stick of dynamite
Let’s go to the maze with glory holes
If I stick my dick in maybe she’ll blow me
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Puppet on a String
02:11
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Dandy Immortal
04:17
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I moved out of home and into the slum for a lurk
I want to be working class but I don’t want to work
When you do nothing you can never take the time off
Daddy set up a trust fund for me why would I stop him
(I’m a dandy immortal)
Chucked out of college, my photo was plastered all over
Not allowed on the premises – famous at last it just shows ya
All art college taught me was marry a rich girl and use her
I already married one, I married yours truly
(I’m a dandy immortal)
CHORUS
Conquer death, death in style
Conquer death, death in style
I’m a work of art and I’ll never die
Sex is a gutless surrender to death and decay
Shit is the smell of your death and it won’t go away
Embracing mortality, smothered in excrement
The intellectual insight caused an erection
(so I tossed myself off to)
CH
I gambled on Wall Street, see me dressed up to the 9’s
All the money I made’s more exciting than all it can buy
If I leave nothing of worth, least I’m dressed for the part
I went to the Phillipines for my final statement in Art
(I crucified myself)
CH x 2
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Spencer has a razor sharp wit - It’s such a relief
He never wants to sleep with me - there are no secrets between us
We went to the school dance together - watch out here comes trouble!
But I wonder could I seduce him - we make such a handsome couple
Spencer hears all about my sex life – my Johnny’s just a jealous suck
He comes inside me in 2 seconds flat – I just need a good fuck
For me and Spencer’s imaginary son – Sammy Donut Junior
We buy a house and we get married – we gotta plan the future
CHORUS
BFF – best friends forever
I am you dressed in drag
BFF – best friends forever
I’m your faghag and you’re my fag
Spencer really wants a boyfriend – he’s hanging out for sex
He gives me a full back massage – and leaves my Johnny for dead
Put my arm round Spencer’s waist – he freaks out like a total queen
If I could be a poofter too – I’d tell him how I feel
CHORUS
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Mother shields me from the world
While daddy used it as a threat
I gave up work as a clerk
Posing naked for the sake of art
I’m free for dinner any night
So long as you’re the one to pay
Or exhibition opening night
Free caviar and free champagne
It takes courage to speak out
Come and look up my address
The first homosexual voice
Fielding questions for my guests
Like a ballerina
Farming pigs all your life
So nimble now across the mud
Pigs become you and your style
CHORUS
If at first you don’t succeed
Failure may just be your /style
Bridge:
And if there was no praise and if there was no blame
Who would I be?
And if there was no blame and if there was no praise
Who would I be? Would I be me?
People take for granted
All the paths I have paved
The spotlight turned away from me
All I hear about is AIDS
It’s a passing fashion
Backing down would be a lie
I cannot follow fads
I am only into style
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I lay the kitchen table; you make a cup of tea
I will be the husband and you will marry me
Let me hear you whisper no one must find out
We won’t fall for that one the 2nd time around
Bridge
I’ll kill your Mum and Dad if you’ll kill mine x 2
She opens up like a flower, a flower for herself
Thinking of her body and her mental health
We all have our secrets no one can reach beyond
There is one sure way I know to turn her on
Bridge
CHORUS
And we’ll make love in the afternoon sun
Forgetting what I saw, it always haunts your mind
Now we have the little ones, I guess it is our time
Who knows what they’re thinking; they look so young and sweet
Don’t they just remind you of how we used to be
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Chorus
What’s a man to do when he’s given a handbag
Given a handbag?
What’s a man to do when he’s given a handbag
Given a handbag?
What’s a man to do?
She goes to the toilet and leaves you there alone in the bar
Fold your arms keep your cool, let rip with a noisy fart
Call a mate, talk cars, talk beer – for God’s sake talk about the match
Play with your balls, adjust them in your pants, give your arse a manly scratch
Chorus
Whatever you do, don’t look inside it, like you even care
Don’t ask anyone if it makes you look fat or put it on your shoulder to wear
Maybe just rummage right through it, what does she expect?
Pull out the lipstick, tampons, panty liners; teach the bitch a lesson
Chorus...
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Everyday I take a bus to the Evacuation Centre
Wear my top hat, twirl my cane, greet dispossessed there
The finest threads distinguish me from drab ‘n’ ordinary
Money is a grubby business but leisure is my calling
Pre-Chorus
I’m a dandy at the end of the world x 2
Ready for the water rations, my bucket has pride of place
It’s simple and it’s elegant, I fetch it home with grace
Stockin well up on cosmetics, prepare f supplies to finish
I parade in front of ruffians and blow the soldiers kisses
CHORUS
I’m a dandy at the end of the world
I was born to play this part
I’d be seen dead nowhere else
I’m a superhero dressed for the part
Come on down to the epicenter the aftershock‘s settled
M’ sweet scent wafts right thro for volunteers assembled
I have no status or profession, trust me I believe in nothing
There’s always beauty to be found, especially in destruction
CHORUS
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Tonna Love (To Dump)
04:11
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Out on a wastes of the never never – gotta tonna love to dump
No one waits for ever and ever – gotta tonna love to dump
It’s embarrassing it don’t keep, it’s not mine don’t look at me
I am busy, can’t you see - I gotta tonna love to dump
Gotta tonna love to dump
More than I need at the moment - gotta tonna love to dump
What should I do can someone show me - tonna love to dump
Might come in handy one of these days, so I’m told people say
I should really put it away - gotta tonna love to dump
Gotta tonna love to dump
Feel free to borrow make good use - gotta tonna love to dump
Got ev’ry sort you can choose - gotta tonna love to dump
Keep it’s yours, let’s all share – it’s too much for me to bear
You don’t want it I don’t care - You don’t want it I don’t care
You don’t want it I don’t care - gotta tonna love to dump
Gotta tonna love to dump
Where dry heat and death have mated - tonna love to dump
With fiery lust my needs unsated - gotta tonna love to dump
Out here noone has to see – what becomes of love no one needs
It ain’t pretty just let me be - gotta tonna love to dump
Gotta tonna love to dump
Gotta tonna love ……………….
To dump
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