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Marianne Faithfull - Want To Buy Some Illusions Lyrics

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  • Want to buy some illusions
  • Slightly used, second-hand ?
  • They were lovely illusions,
  • Reaching high, built on sand.
  • They had a touch of paradise,
  • A spell you cant explain,
  • For in this crazy paradise
  • You are in love with pain.
  • Want to buy some illusions
  • Slightly used, just like new ?
  • Such romantic illusions,
  • And theyre all about you.
  • Too bad they all fell apart
  • Like dreams often do.
  • They were lovely illusions,
  • But they just wouldnt come true.
  • Slightly used, just like new,
  • Such romantic illusions
  • And theyre all about you.
  • Id sell them all for a penny,
  • They make pretty souvenirs.
  • Take my lovely illusions,
  • Some for laughs, some for tears.
  • On this next song, Im using the translation, a new translation done by one of my best, best, best, best friends in ireland, the playwriter and poet, frank mcguinness, and he did a new translati
  • The threepenny opera about four or five years ago, and I played pirate jenny in that production at the gate theatre in dublin. and I love this translation, I think its so exceptional. in this
  • Jenny who is a prostitute and a waitress in a, in a, in a shitty hotel, er, obviously on the docks, and, and macheath is her pimp, is imagining, is having a fantasy of what she would do to thos
  • Oppress her if she could.

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