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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 time
Surrounded himself with shiny things
First night tickets, ermine, pearls upon a string
And disappeared in all the pestilence
that sudden pleasure brings
He 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 chest
Well 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 too
Baby 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
- Album:
- Beautiful Waste And Other Songs
- Born Sandy Devotional
- Miscellaneous
- In The Pines
- Calenture
- Treeless Plain
- The Black Swan
- Come Ride With Me... Wide Open Road
- Grandson of Dungeon Tape
- Jack Brabham 2010 #2
- Australian Melodrama
- Live - Stockholm
- Also Used and Recommended By
- Tales From the Australian Underground: Singles 1976-1989
- Love in Bright Landscapes
- Indie #2: 1981-1987
- Wide Open Road
- Field of Glass
- Trick of the Light
- Goodbye Little Boy