Posted by Sigismund on February 12, 2009, at 18:05:45
In reply to Australia, posted by Sigismund on February 12, 2009, at 17:56:58
Someone put this up on Youtube recently. It's not the best version, but still.
You will love the words, and perhaps know someone to whom they might apply.
(David McComb, the writer of them, had a heart transplant and then committed suicide later.)Tender is the Night.
I knew him as a gentle young man
I cannot say for sure the reasons for his decline
We watched him fade before our very eyes
And years before his timeSurrounded himself with shiny things
First night tickets, ermine, pearls upon a string
And disappeared in all the pestilence
that sudden pleasure bringsHe never asks after her anymore
He made a point of losing her address
And every trinket that she ever touched
he keeps locked away
And just burns up In the furnace of his chestWell I spoke to a man who says he's done it all
and the only thing that pleases or excites him now
is hurting, hurting then hurting some more
There's someone I want to forget tonight
Don't you want to forget someone too?
I left him, and I can leave you tooBaby let's go out tonight
It will all turn out all right I'm sure
Don't want to drink at home again tonight
So let's go out
Let's go out tonight
It's getting dark earlier now
But where you are it's just getting light
Where you are it will just be getting light
poster:Sigismund
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