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The Derangement

from Bloodsport & Porn by Augie March

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lyrics

Your true love gave you a mocking bird,
have you ever known a bird of the taxiderm to sing?
Your true love is a mocking you
and now you come to think he seems to like that kind of thing,
lately,
he likes to pull your string.
And in conversation a practised deceit,
far flung opinions whose points never meet,
beating your brow till you offer up defeat.
Strange entertainment,
The Derangement.

Bold undertaker, apocalyptic chronicler,
a sage on the page, high tower ringer,
harbinger, sooth-light.
With your vague epistolary sung into the night
is there any establishment impervious to your might?
Brave poet of the coming blight?
Two conversations are had in one verse,
one holds an argument, one holds a curse.
No-one is listening and still they go flailing,
Strange entertainment,
The Derangement.

The leader of your island is botherer of god,
he wants to lead the sinners to the trembling Land of Nod.
East of Eden by way of Monaro,
bitter fruit needs picking in the Orchard of Sorrow
by you unbelievers, by you layabouts, you leaners.

Three minutes long and a half is a song
but unless it gets played a million times it never left the page.

They want it not to matter,
they want it all to change,
they want you to get used to it
so none of this shit seems strange,
it’s how they derange…

But a mad conversation is better than none,
once we stop talking the silence has won,
silence like after the bullet leaves the gun,
Strange entertainment,
The Derangement.

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from Bloodsport & Porn, released December 15, 2021

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Over the last 25 years, few Australian bands have enjoyed a synergy of critical and commercial success like Augie March. Their songs are heard on almost every radio format in the country - with gold and platinum albums to their credit - yet they remain iconoclasts, perennial outsiders. ... more

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