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The Sailors and the Whores

from The Dark Carnival by A New International

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In which a dead woman, whose grave is visited every day
by a dreadful husband she couldn’t stand, thinks “Oh
Christ, not him again. To hell with this”.

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All that you suppose is more than you know
We were bound, above the ground, just not so long ago,
Looking down our noses and sinning on the fly
The bourgeoisie won’t let you be, not even when you die

Save us from the righteous
Save us from the pure
Let me have the fun I was not allowed before
How the high and mighty were hypocrites and bores
Make me new and throw me to the sailors and the whores

Consider this retiral as dear, departed wife
And may we be in death what we could never be in life
Circle down the spiral to whatever will be
I hope and pray it’s far away from anyone like me

Save us from the righteous
Save us from the pure
Let me have the fun I was not allowed before
How the high and mighty were hypocrites and bores
Make me new and throw me to the sailors and the whores

(Whores, whores, whores, whores, whores diddlyors whores!
Whores, whores, whores, whores, whores, diddlyors, whores!
Throw me to the sailors, throw me to the sailors!)

Hey!

Save us from the righteous
Save us from the pure
Let me have the fun I was not allowed before
And all the bloody worthy are hypocrites and bores
Make me new and throw me to the sailors and the whores

Rearrange the deckchairs, who will save our souls?
Spare me please the lectures of all those holy proles
We know the lower orders would do the same of course
Make me new and throw me to the sailors and the whores!
The sailors and the whores!
The sailors and the whores!

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from The Dark Carnival, released April 26, 2019

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