C.D., Jimmy Jazz & Me - The Verlaines

Saw a guy drunk where the people would dance

And men of similarity laugh out of charity

And long-faced women cast to agree

Look sideways and up, and quietly leave

And I cannot hate or despise or deplore

'Cos I’ve stood and watched from both sides before

I lean on the dance floor

I can’t think straight any more

Asked me why I never wrote you a song

When you thought you’d given me enough to work on

And now you find that I’ve lost my tongue

And I turn my back on the way you get your fun

You don’t know what struck me dumb

You’re on the run

C.D.

Jimmy Jazz and me

Fucked off to Paris to write of the sea

Too much beauty in one foul sweep

And the brilliant sun made me blind on the beach

So I made it back to confusion row

Where encased in four walls my mind could cope

We live in hope