Taken from Robert Crumb’s Plunge Into The Depths Of Despair (1983)
And if anyone […]
Tag:
pessimistic
(Acoustic) Blues
Lyrics:
Hard times is here and everywhere you go
Times are harder than ever been before
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You know that people, they are driftin’ from door to door
But they can’t find no heaven, I don’t care where they go
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People, if I ever can get up off of this old hard killin’ floor
Lord, I’ll never get down this low no more
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When you hear me singin’ this old lonesome song
People, you know these hard times can last us so long
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You […]
Lyrics:
Ah, look at all the lonely people…
Ah, look at all the lonely people…
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Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice
In the church where a wedding has been,
Lives in a dream…
Waits at the window, wearing the face
That she keeps in a jar by the door,
Who is it for…
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All the lonely people,
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people,
Where do they all belong?
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Father McKenzie writing the words
Of a sermon that no one will hear,
No one comes near…
Look at him working, darning his socks
In the night when there’s nobody there,
What does he care…
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All the lonely […]
Persephone’s nightmare
Lyrics (English translation):
Where once pennyroyal and wild mint grew
and the first cyclamen sprang up,
now peasants bargain on cement prise
and birds fall dead in melting furnace
Sleep Persephone
in earth’s embrace,
to this world’s balcony
never come up again
where once the mystics joined their hands
reverently before entering the sanctuary,
now passing tourists throw their cigarette butts
and go to see the new oil refinery
Sleep Persephone
in earth’s embrace,
to this world’s balcony
never come up again
where once the sea was blessed
and flocks and herds bleated joyfully in […]