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Album: Carnal Knowledge (1996) – Track 2


Should have known he'd disappear … that was weird
How I began to feel it from the taste in my mouth
And I lost my shirt on the boulevard … living hard
It's not that important to the world somehow

It's just that this emptiness is getting too loud
You're always such an expert on the movies
But you never got the picture at all

Why're you looking so insanely cheerful
Are you just pretending are your senses O.K.?
It's kind of clear you're not a master of sympathy
Just another roommate why don't you go away …

Well it could have been one of those … episodes
When the pretty couple throw their pennies from the bridge
But instead just memory … came with me
With its plastic tape recorder reels in my head

Forever playing could-have-beens from miracle beds
Now I shuffle from one room into the other
With a hangover I wish was from wine

Why're you looking so insanely cheerful
Are you just pretending are your senses O.K.?
It's kind of clear you're not a master of sympathy
Useless as a friend and you ought to go away …

See you are the specialist … watching this
Tell me I'm neurotic tell me anything you like
But don't you say that he could be back with me
Cause pleading on the telephone's a cause without hope

And a ninety dollar phonecall really sucks when you're broke
But now some trivia is blissing your mind out
You kill my time worse than an Airline magazine

Why're you looking so insanely cheerful
Are you just pretending are your senses O.K.?
It's kind of clear you're not a master of sympathy
Just another roommate Why don't you go away …

(c) 1992 L. Sternberg
Bone fiction are: Zita Lotis-Faure & Liam Sternberg