Lyrics Middle-Class Heroes.lrc The Divine Comedy
[id: pshjsxen]
[ar: The Divine Comedy]
[al: Casanova]
[ti: Middle-Class Heroes]
[length: 05:26]
[00:03.53]”Hello…
[00:05.11]What have we here?
[00:06.96]A young lady!
[00:08.72]To what do I owe this pleasant surprise, my pretty one?
[00:11.77]How may I be of service this dark and wintry night?
[00:15.87]Ah, I see. You wish me to look into the future… your future.
[00:23.90]After GCSEs, A-levels, university…
[00:30.01]After your first badly paid job in advertising…
[00:34.91]Okay, my pretty, just cross my palm with plastic,
[00:41.03]And I’ll see what I can do…
[00:44.01]Wait!
[00:44.84]The fog is lifting!”
[00:46.44]I see oriental paper globes
[00:52.76]Hanging like decomposing cocoons
[00:58.65]While exotic candles overload
[01:04.60]The dusty air with their stale perfume
[01:10.99]And I see lentils, beans, seaweed and rice
[01:17.16]In jars on the windowsill
[01:23.42]And it ain’t hardly enough to feed the mice
[01:28.87]Running behind the lines of allergy pills
[01:36.15]All these things will come to pass
[01:41.66]When heroes of the middle class
[01:48.00]Face up to their responsibilities
[01:58.70]I see an Indian fertility God
[02:05.09]He’s got thirty seven limbs to spare
[02:11.62]And tasteless tie-dyed tablecloths
[02:17.09]That double up as evening wear
[02:22.68]And I see naked bodies twist and turn
[02:28.74]On the futon of dreams fulfilled
[02:35.12]But their three-year-old kid seems unconcerned
[02:40.60]He’d rather swallow all those allergy pills
[02:48.54]I see unspeakable vulgarity
[03:21.32]Institutionalised mediocrity
[03:24.11]Infinite tragedy
[03:26.71]Rise up little souls—join the doomed army
[03:30.52]Fight the good fight—wage the unwinnable war:
[03:34.85]Elegance against ignorance!
[03:36.71]Difference against indifference!
[03:39.31]Wit against shit!
[03:41.95]My words fly up to heaven, my thoughts remain below
[03:53.71]Words said without feeling never to heaven go…
[04:08.07]All these things will come to pass
[04:48.70]When heroes of the middle class
[04:52.73]Face up, repent, and pay the price
[04:59.08]For accidentally creating life
[05:06.35]An oversight for which they must atone
[05:16.14]And sacrifice their own
[05:23.30]Year of Release: 1996