Cathal Coughlan : Amused as hell

Une video du chanteur irlandais de The Fatima Mansion et Microdisney.
France Inter avait retransmis un de sesfabuleux concert sà La Maroquinerie il y a quelques années.

Amused As Hell

Get wet, get hard, it's Tuesday

show the world you care

trivial solutions

in trivial affairs

Tonight there is a party

for a perfume called 'Despair'

there's been a revolution

in women's underwear.

Now there's a purchase to smooth every frown

trucks packed with catalogues yawn into town

Billboards and flat screens announce all is well

the peak of our history,

united, assured,

amused as hell

amused as hell.

The torsos keep gyrating,

all tattoo'd oiled and waxed,

there's been a revolution,

paradise is fact.

Do they fuck as well as fake it?

Well, you only need to ask.

Ah, such a lot of fucking,

more than ever in the past.

Cut to a famine, a drought or a war,

need a break in the fun so the wine can be poured.

The ghost of last Christmas now plays William Tell

on the head of your firstborn, and you should still be

amused as hell

Novelty is endless

& nothing's ever new

but this is no 'forever'

just a thing that planes fly through

Here on the bypass, the loose bottom rung,

where flopsongs are written, where dayjobs are done,

the non-sovereign nations, in thousands, in ones,

no land and no laws, from their black-spotted lungs

they roar out to curse you and spit in your face.

They are not being ironic; I think we should make

a benefit concert, a swell carousel

where the stars dry-hump livestock

to keep you

amused as hell

amused as hell

amused as hell