Genius Lyrics
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Marianne Faithfull – Why d'Ya Do It
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A standout b-side hit from the album Broken English. Interviewed with Stereo Society her producer and collaborator Barry Reynolds states:
With Marianne, probably one of the best
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Marianne Faithfull – Broken English
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[Verse 1] / Could have come through anytime / Cold, lonely puritan / What are you fighting for? / It's not my security / [Chorus] / It's just an old war / Not even a cold war / Don
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Marianne Faithfull – She
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She lives alone with no one / Who can see she's unhappy / She knows what she lost / Still she is waiting for more / She could be living in hell / And not know someone loves her
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Marianne Faithfull – Witches’ Song
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[Verse 1] / Shall I see tonight sister / Bathed in magic greet / Shall we meet on the hilltop / Where the two roads meet? / We will form the circle / Hold our hands and chant / Let
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Marianne Faithfull – Strange Weather
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Will you take me across the channel / London Bridge is falling down / Strange, a woman tries to save / What a man will try to drown / And he's the rain that they predicted / It's
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Marianne Faithfull – Love Hates
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[Verse 1] / These are the secrets of the night / The stories hidden from our sight / (Ah, ha, ha) / (Ah, ha, ha) / It dances deep within the wind / As shadows fade the fight begins
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Marianne Faithfull – Vagabond Ways
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Oh, doctor please, oh, doctor please / I drink and I take drugs / I love sex and I move around a lot / I had my first baby at fourteen / And yes, I guess I do have vagabond ways
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Marianne Faithfull – Guilt
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[Verse 1] / I feel guilt, I feel guilt / Though I know I done no wrong, I feel guilt / I feel guilt, I feel guilt / Though I know I've done no wrong, I feel guilt / [Verse 2] / I
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Marianne Faithfull – This Little Bird
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There's a little bird that somebody sends / Down to the earth to live on the wind / Borne on the wind and he sleeps on the wind / This little bird that somebody sends / He's light
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Marianne Faithfull – Pirate Jenny
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[JENNY] / You lads see me wash the glasses, wipe the floors / Make the beds, I'm the best of servants / You can kindly throw me pennies and I'll thank you very much / When you see
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Marianne Faithfull – Epilogue
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Our revels now our ended / These are actors, as I foretold you / Were all spirits, and are melted into air / Into thin air / And like the baseless fabric of this vision / The cloud
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Marianne Faithfull – Misunderstanding
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[Verse 1] / Misunderstanding is my name / What I am is not a game / Such an easy trap to fall / For anyone / And then you find yourself alone / No explanation you can give / That
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Marianne Faithfull – Prologue
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Midway, this way of life we're bound upon / I woke to find myself in a dark wood / Where the right road was wholly lost, and gone / Aye me, how hard to speak of it / That rude and
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Marianne Faithfull – As Tears Go By
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It is the evening of the day / I sit and watch the children play / Smiling faces I can see / But not for me / I sit and watch as tears go by / My riches can't buy everything / I
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Marianne Faithfull – Brain Drain
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“Brain Drain” captures the hopelessness of the lifestyle of a drug addict. Although uncredited on the album, Tim Hardin co-wrote “Brain Drain” with Ben Brierly. It was one the last
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Marianne Faithfull (Ft. Blur) – Kissin' Time
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Oh, don't sell me out, only love / You don't get it so well / Please tell someone / Everything is gone / Dream less of me, less to guess on you / I felt so much / Every tick and
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Marianne Faithfull – The Gypsy Faerie Queen
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[Verse 1: Marianne Faithfull] / I'm known by many different names / My good friend Will / Calls me Puck and Robin Goodfellow / I follow the gypsy faerie queen / I follow the gypsy
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Marianne Faithfull (Ft. Jarvis Cocker) – Somewhere
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There's a place for us / Somewhere a place for us / Peace and quiet and open air / Wait for us somewhere / There's a time for us / Some day a time for us / Time together with time
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Marianne Faithfull (Ft. Billy Corgan) – I’m on Fire
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I'm on fire / When I was young / Just for you / And my heart was pure / Such desire / I only wanted love / Just for you / I had allure / Still on fire / High heels ideals / Just
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Marianne Faithfull (Ft. Nick Cave) – The Crane Wife 3
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[Verse 1: Marianne Faithful] / And under the boughs unbowed / All holding a snowy shroud / She had no heart, so hardened / All under the boughs unbowed / [Verse 2: Marianne
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Marianne Faithfull – Horses and High Heels
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When I lived in the city of Dublin / It suited my face and my tears / The talk, the drink and the friends were good / And stood for my hopes and my fears / I lived in a flat in
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Marianne Faithfull – Sleep
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It is safe to sleep alone / In a place no one knows / And to seek life under stones / In a place water flows / It is best to find in sleep / The missing pieces that you lost / Best
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Marianne Faithfull – Incarceration of a Flower Child
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Do you remember me? How we used to be helpless and happy and blind? / Sunk without hope in a haze of good dope and cheap wine? / Laying on the living-room floor on those Indian
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Marianne Faithfull – With You in Mind
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I'll take a walk all by myself / So I can think of nothing else / But loving you when we find time / These are the things I'll do with you in mind / I'll pick a rose and feel the
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Marianne Faithfull (Ft. Teddy Thompson) – How Many Worlds
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[Verse 1: Marianne Faithful] / Thinking of a world and the light of the sun / And all the many lives that were ever begun / Ever begun / [Verse 2: Marianne Faithful] / Our little
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Marianne Faithfull – The Mystery of Love
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When you're not by my side / The world's in two, and I'm a fool / When you're not in my sight / Then everything, just fades from view / The mystery of love belongs to you / The
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Marianne Faithfull – Sparrows Will Sing
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Marianne Faithfull returns with a new song penned by Roger Waters of Pink Floyd. It is the first single from her 2014 album Give My Love to London.
Faithfull says of the
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Marianne Faithfull (Ft. Warren Ellis) – The Bridge of Sighs
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One more unfortunate / Weary of breath / Rashly importunate / Gone to her death / Take her up tenderly / Lift her with care / Fashion'd so slenderly / Young, and so fair / Look at
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Marianne Faithfull – Visions of Johanna
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Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet? / We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it / And Louise holds a handful of
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Marianne Faithfull – Deep Water
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[Verse 1] / I'm walking through deep water / It's all that I can do / I'm walking through deep water / Trying to get to you / [Chorus] / Your face is hidden from me / But your love
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Marianne Faithfull – Bored by Dreams
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[Verse 1] / Things are never what they seem / Play a part most of the time / What is yours cannot be mine / And I'm bored by dreams / Bored by dreams / I can't say the words I mean
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Marianne Faithfull – Late Victorian Holocaust
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[Verse 1] / Up the Golborne Road with star-light in our blood / Over the bridge and along the canal / It was a late Victorian holocaust, pal / We were star-babies in the dark
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Marianne Faithfull – Mother Wolf
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Mother wolf where are you going? / That cub in your mouth isn't one of yours / He is now, and I will fight to the death who say / Different / The filth that comes out of your mouth
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Marianne Faithfull – Something Better
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He walks along singing his fairy song / Picking up magic that grows at his feet / She says the same her peculiar way / Dreaming good fortune on everyone's street / Say, hey, have
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Marianne Faithfull (Ft. Nick Cave) – Crazy Love
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Hated by all and everywhere he goes / Blazing contempt for human life and lies / Murder as art and what he knows he knows / From life and fear in other people's eyes / Crazy love
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Marianne Faithfull – It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
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You must leave now, take what you need, you think will last / But whatever you wish to keep, you'd better grab it fast / Yonder stands your orphan with his gun / Crying like a fire
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Marianne Faithfull – My Friends Have
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My friends have many features / Many reasons, I can believe them / My friends have many things that / I am needing, to keep me singing / Yeah, you're a friend of mine / You're a
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Marianne Faithfull – Love in the Afternoon
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It's getting dark outside / Daytime is done / The lights along the river come up / One by one / Let's make love again / We got time / I am yours / You are mine / It's getting dark
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Marianne Faithfull – Falling Back
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[Verse 1] / How many times have I found myself in this place? / Different reasons and excuses / So many times to go round and round in space / [Hook] / Looking for something
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Marianne Faithfull – When I Find My Life
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Oh, I will free the bird in me / Oh, when I find my life / What I always knew could be / Oh, when I find my life / I will see the truth in me / Oh, when I find my life / Oh, when I
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