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"The Divine Comedy"
"The Divine Comedy"
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жанры: singer-songwriter, alternative, indie, pop, irish
альбомы: Victory For The Comic Muse
A Lady Of A Certain Age
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The Divine Comedy
жанры: singer-songwriter, alternative, indie, pop, irish
альбомы: Victory For The Comic Muse
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Back in the day you had been part of the smart set You'd holidayed with kings, dined out with starlets From London to New York, Cap Ferrat to Capri In perfume by Chanel and clothes by GivenchyYou sipped camparis with David and Peter At Noel's parties by Lake Geneva Scaling the dizzy heights of high society Armed only with a cheque book and a family treeYou chased the sun around the Cote d'Azur Until the light of youth became obscured And left you on your own and in the shade An English lady of a certain ageAnd if a nice young man would buy you a drink You'd say with a conspiratorial wink You wouldn't think that I was seventy And he'd say, No, you couldn't beYou had to marry someone very very rich So that you might be kept in the style to which You had all of your life been accustomed to But that the socialists had taxed away from youYou gave him children, a girl and a boy To keep your sanity a nanny was employed And when the time came they were sent away Well that was simply what you did in those daysYou chased the sun around the Cote d'Azur Until the light of youth became obscured And left you on your own and in the shade An English lady of a certain ageAnd if a nice young man would buy you a drink You'd say with a conspiratorial wink "You wouldn't think that I was sixty three" And he'd say, "No, you couldn't beYour son's in stocks and bonds and lives back in Surrey Flies down once in a while and leaves in a hurry Your daughter never finished her finishing school Married a strange young man of whom you don't approveYour husband's hollow heart gave out one Christmas Day He left the villa to his mistress in Marseilles And so you come here to escape your little flat Hoping someone will fill your glass and let you chat about howYou chased the sun around the Cote d'Azur Until the light of youth became obscured And left you all alone and in the shade An English lady of a certain ageAnd if a nice young man would buy you a drink You'd say with a conspiratorial wink "You wouldn't think that I was fifty three" And he'd say, "No, you couldn't be
Это интересно:Название "Divine comedy", по сути, является псевдонимом композитора, певца и музыканта Нила Хэннона (р. 7 ноября 1970), скрестившего в своей музыке элементы "новой волны" и влияния Скотта Уолкера, Моррисси и "Electric light orchestra". Именно Хэннон был основателем этого проекта, а зачастую и единственным его участником. Группа появилась на свет в 1989 году в формате трио, и помимо Нила в ее... продолжение
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