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'A moving aria
for a vanishing
style of mind'
'A noble debut
tackling vertiginous
demands'
'Has absence ever
sounded so
eloquent
so sad
I doubt it?'
With an arm
across the
torso
Face on
the nails
With an arm
across the
torso
Face on
the pale
monkey
nails
'Touching in the
shattered lives
it unearths'
'A nocturne
filled with
glorious ideas'
'A chilling
exploration
of erotic consumption'
With an arm
across the
torso
Face on
the nails
With an arm
across the
torso
Face on
the pale
monkey
nails
Cossacks are
charging in
Charging into
fields of
white roses
Cossacks are
charging in
Charging into
fields of
white roses
"That's a
nice suit"
"That's a
swanky suit"
"Been a pope
like no other"
"I'm looking
for a good
cowboy"
'A rare outcry
makes you lead
a larger life'
'You could easily
picture this in the
current top ten'
'Medieval savagery
calculated cruelty'
'It's hard to pick
the worst moment'
'It's hard to pick
the worst moment'
With an arm
across the
torso
Face on
the nails
With an arm
across the
torso
Face on
the pale
monkey
nails
for a vanishing
style of mind'
'A noble debut
tackling vertiginous
demands'
'Has absence ever
sounded so
eloquent
so sad
I doubt it?'
With an arm
across the
torso
Face on
the nails
With an arm
across the
torso
Face on
the pale
monkey
nails
'Touching in the
shattered lives
it unearths'
'A nocturne
filled with
glorious ideas'
'A chilling
exploration
of erotic consumption'
With an arm
across the
torso
Face on
the nails
With an arm
across the
torso
Face on
the pale
monkey
nails
Cossacks are
charging in
Charging into
fields of
white roses
Cossacks are
charging in
Charging into
fields of
white roses
"That's a
nice suit"
"That's a
swanky suit"
"Been a pope
like no other"
"I'm looking
for a good
cowboy"
'A rare outcry
makes you lead
a larger life'
'You could easily
picture this in the
current top ten'
'Medieval savagery
calculated cruelty'
'It's hard to pick
the worst moment'
'It's hard to pick
the worst moment'
With an arm
across the
torso
Face on
the nails
With an arm
across the
torso
Face on
the pale
monkey
nails
Lyrics submitted by The Drift
Track duration: 04:32
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With a few hunches and a thorough afternoon on Google, you could trace other phrases back to book reviews, George Bush’s entreaties to Jacques Chirac, eulogies for Pope John Paul II. The collage effect, splicing the world historical with tabloid tittle tattle, is reminiscent of John Berger, years ago, flicking through the Sunday Times Magazine, from the spectacle of Bangladeshi refugees to aftershave ads, and declaring, “The culture that produced this incoherence… is insane”."
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I love the, "Face on the pale monkey nails." part. I don't know what this song is about, but it's awesome. The Cossacks are a village I know, that are known for there skills in war and weapons I think.
I always think of a beautiful landscape at the, "cossacks are," part, being invaded with white flowers everywhere, with two sides going towards each other yelling, ready for battle, disrupting the landscape. Great song.
Nobody heard of it or what?