
Date of issue: 28.01.1984
Song language: English
Uncle Wonderful |
My lips are cold. |
My heart is flame |
My hips are old. |
My kiss is pain |
My father took me one too many times |
No mother I’ll be to any of his kind |
For kindness is the flesh on flesh |
They call me «Crazy» |
'Cause there’s no one else to blame |
Crazy, full of fantasies and shame |
So I’m crazy as a bedbug in June? |
What’s a girl to do? |
What’s a girl to do? |
My eyes invite the calloused mind |
My thighs excite like newly-ripened wine |
I take their lust and I swallow fast |
They rape the dust of my body’s past |
For passion is the time after time |
They call me «Hey, baby!» |
And spill their naked seed |
«Hey baby, don’t you save a little bit for me?» |
So I’m savior and mother to the breed? |
What’s a girl to be |
What’s a girl to be |
Those little girls with their tongues on fire |
That child’s world full of innocent desire |
I never touch them but to photograph the dream |
Those lonely children never feel alone with me |
For loneliness is mother to my need |
They call me «Uncle wonderful» |
Uncle wonderful… |
The wonder’s in the splendor of their youth |
What’s a girl to do? |
What’s a girl to do? |
I lock you in just to shut you out |
No love begins, there’s no love to doubt |
I offer life without pain or need |
I murdered mine, and I threw away the key |
Now I’ve forgotten how to breath |
They call me «Normal» |
Normal… |
I am the institution of private destiny |
I offer a solution — anesthesia’s ecstasy |
They call me free |
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