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Berlin is a Bugger's Daydream

from Tonna Love to Dump by The Songs of Tom Smith

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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

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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

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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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from Tonna Love to Dump, released December 12, 2018

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The Songs of Tom Smith Brisbane, Australia

The Songs of Tom Smith is a recording and performance project created by Tom in 2012. It has a large pool of musicians across Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.

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