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The Magus: Expanded Edition

by Peter Cat

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1.
Blue Raspberry 04:00
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We never went far We were much too mashed for that We just ground our teeth together In your HMO flat Sweating and boasting in turn Of how big a deal we’d been In other arms, in other scenes, and in our dreams So do you like this song?
 My mother sang it And it was a minor hit In the eighties The bitter taste of anticipation How could I ever have lived without this? This craving for what never existed No such thing as blue raspberry You spoke in words buoyed by experience The louche confidence that comes from playing a young man’s game You saw I was parched and you said that you knew just the thing To quench that thirst Sucking on our pops, under a horribly hot Tottenham sun, we sat on the swings And said nothing The bitter taste of anticipation How could I ever have lived without this? This craving for what never existed No such thing as blue raspberry So was it love, or was it lust Or was it just intellectual sustenance? What does it matter? I'll drag you down into dirt In search of unending highs That I'll never find No such thing as a blue raspberry You’re the mine and I’m the canary No such thing as a blue raspberry You’re the mine and I’m the canary I’m as lonely as hell I’m as lonely as hell I’m as lonely as hell Beam me up, softboi
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The Magus 04:10
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Come in, come one, come all And bear witness to time-honoured tradition Exquisite craftsmanship and an art at once modern and ageless So sit back, relax and let the illusion take you It's better than the real thing Given the chance would you do it? Shuffle a hand of reality Inherit a majesty older than bones (Given the chance would you do it?) From a young age I knew of it Like a mage It isn't you, it's me Have you heard that one before? This is a delicate task Born in the bowels of boarding schools and Mary Magdalenes Did you think that I'd just gone away? We're here and we're always flattered to deceive Sure, you can write to me but don't you dare come visit me 'Cause if you do, yeah, you should know that you will be the crazy one You're just under my spell Right under my spell We're here and we're going to show you the prestige So please don't cry, you know it's applause that we want, not tears Oh Lady Liberty, you're looking oh so lovely tonight Under my spell Right under my spell The old system of power It lives on in me I begin to feel affinity with whisky and jazz piano (No E) I am the Magus, and yes, I am free, aren't I? Eímai eléftheros Eleutheria libertas What am I? I'm the Mini driven into the swimming pool And I'm that sick trick you thought that no-one could ever play I'm the extra-marital shag in the back of the family sedan And I'm the gaslight hoisted high Both the broken bird and the unbearable burden I am dead at thirty-six And darling, this can't be fixed We're here and we're always flattered to deceive Sure, you can write to me but don't you dare come visit me 'Cause if you do, yeah, you should know that you will be the crazy one You're just under my spell Right under my spell We're here and we're going to show you the prestige So please don't cry, you know it's applause that we want, not tears Oh Lady Liberty, you're looking oh so lovely tonight Under my spell Right under my spell Under my spell Right under my spell
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Melon Dating Simulator!! 03:45
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In a post-apocalyptic world The dating scene's tough Do you remember where you were when the storm hit? Everyone does! I was a rake and I played around I got myself a bad name in town But in your eyes I see you understand And I feel flushed in my adrenal glands I think that I'm in love with a melon Yeah I think they're right for me I'm in love with a melon Yeah, they remind me of me I'm in love with a melon There's an openness and honesty I'm in love with a melon But a chasm where the past should be In the emerald face Of my Cucurbitaceous date I see a weight bearing down on a conscience that fancies itself more ethical than it was before You were a cad and you fooled around But you want to make improvements now Life was short before the bomb And it's gotten shorter since the cataclysm I think that I'm in love with a melon Yeah I think they're right for me I'm in love with a melon Yeah, they remind me of me I'm in love with a melon They've a sketchy sexual history But I'm in love with them! The stars are out tonight Because they're rationing the light If I took your green hand Would you run with me? The stars are out tonight Because they're rationing the light So I take your green hand I think that I'm in love with a melon Yeah I think they're right for me I'm in love with a melon Yeah, they remind me of me I'm in love with a melon They are sweet and they are seedy I'm in love with a melon They are a typical I.N.F.P. The stars are out tonight Because they're rationing the light If I took your green hand Would you run with me?
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Disappearing Act 06:35
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I give you this pledge Since you have been rapt with attention And so much more deserving Of the things I am quite unwilling to give And so I give you this pledge I am so tired of deception So just one more last deception until I deceive again And so I give you this pledge This bagatelle Le bateleur conjures the rabbit And at this point it's just habit I agree But it's my lonely heart leaves me this way Cue laughter from the gallery Eleutheria (Eleftheria) And so I fade And so I vanish And so I fade And so I vanish In a disappearing act Disappearing act Disappearing act Baby, believe me, I am As disappointed in myself as you are disappointed in me I agree with all that you have to say Just as long as it brings this exchange to an end I would cut my way Out from the belly of a beached whale So long as some eligible slip was waiting for me on the other side Believe me, I would 'Cause the novelist Who lingers over my shoulder Writing me into existence I must please So won't you save those long-overdue tears Nimis sero imber serotinus Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear So now I fade So now I vanish Now I fade So now I vanish In a disappearing act Disappearing act Disappearing act It's not enough It's not enough It's not enough Not enough Not enough It's not enough Not enough Not enough Not enough And in dreams, I awake Tied to a mock throne And all around me sit visions of timeless, goddess judgement Horns, antlers, mask Beak, fire, staff I am Am I to be acquitted? Or found guilty for my crimes? I call out your name as I cry I call out your name You are seated in the gallery Wearing a white lab coat And an impassioned expression
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Nicholas 03:18
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Nicholas Your loneliness is a lethal weapon Your solitary heart lures sirens to the rocks On which you've lain your cashmere socks To dry in the sun Nicholas Darned in your mid-market marled knitwear You yearn to be made whole again Your outstretched palms are grasping for mother's hand On a dirty platform, forever You are not who they have taken you for, and so So we will wear you like a shadow Showing the room what a study in blue that you are The daffodils, they are in bloom All that you rail, all that you rail against, it's a sin But what it is you never knew One dream, one soul One prize, one life and goal It's a kind of magic One dream, one soul One prize and goal And now you are refracting Eleutheria Nicholas Your therapist calls you marriage-resistant And of course you pay her enough to be right, Nicholas Your rigid marble will melt into soft flour And your death will mark the mystery for the rest of us Nicholas And those who you wooed were just you, behind masks You never could recognise real This happens over and over and over So what shall we do with this, Nicholas? Eleutheria You are not who they have taken you for, and so So we will wear you like a shadow Showing the room what a study in blue that you are The daffodils, they are in bloom All that you rail, all that you rail against, it's a sin But what it is you never knew One dream, one soul One prize, one life and goal How is your reflection? One dream, one soul One prize and goal Have you learnt your lesson?
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The Daffodils 03:05
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Nicholas (GRAVELLE Goblinization remix) 02:40
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Nicholas Your loneliness is a lethal weapon Your solitary heart lures sirens to the rocks On which you've lain your cashmere socks To dry in the sun Nicholas Darned in your mid-market marled knitwear You yearn to be made whole again Your outstretched palms are grasping for mother's hand On a dirty platform, forever Nicholas Your therapist calls you marriage-resistant And of course you pay her enough to be right, Nicholas Your rigid marble will melt into soft flour And your death will mark the mystery for the rest of us Nicholas And those who you wooed were just you, behind masks You never could recognise real You are not who they have taken you for, and so So we will wear you like a shadow Showing the room what a study in blue that you are The daffodils, they are in bloom All that you rail, all that you rail against, it's a sin But what it is you never knew This happens over and over and over Eleutheria You are not You are not You are not You are not You are not You are not You are not You are not who they have taken you for, and so So we will wear you like a shadow Showing the room what a study in blue that you are The daffodils, they are in bloom All that you rail, all that you rail against, it's a sin But what it is you never knew You are not who they have taken you for, and so So we will wear you like a shadow Showing the room what a study in blue that you are The daffodils, they are in bloom All that you rail, all that you rail against, it's a sin But what it is you never knew Nicholas
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Nicholas (demo) 03:43
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Nicholas Your loneliness is a lethal weapon Your solitary heart lures sirens to the rocks On which you've lain your cashmere socks To dry in the sun Nicholas Darned in your mid-market marled knitwear You yearn to be made whole again Your outstretched palms are grasping for mother's hand On a dirty platform, forever You are not who they have taken you for, and so So we will wear you like a shadow Showing the room what a study in blue that you are The daffodils, they are in bloom All that you rail, all that you rail against, it's a sin But what it is you never knew One dream, one soul One prize, one life and goal It's a kind of magic One dream, one soul One prize and goal And now you are refracting Eleutheria Nicholas Your therapist calls you marriage-resistant And of course you pay her enough to be right, Nicholas Your rigid marble will melt into soft flour And your death will mark the mystery for the rest of us Nicholas And those who you wooed were just you, behind masks You never could recognise real Over and over and over and over and over and over What do we do with this, Nicholas? Eleutheria Who they have taken you for? It's not you Yet we still wear you like a shadow Showing the world what a study in blue that you are The daffodils, they are in bloom All that you rail, all that you rail against, it's a sin Yet what it is you never knew One dream, one soul One prize, one life and goal Have you learnt your lesson? One dream, one soul One life and goal How is your reflection?
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Melon Dating Simulator!! (live at The Old Hairdresser's, Glasgow) 03:35
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In a post-apocalyptic world The dating scene's tough Do you remember where you were when the storm hit? Everyone does! I was a rake and I played around I got myself a bad name in town But in your eyes I see you understand And I feel flushed in my adrenal glands I think that I'm in love with a melon Yeah I think they're right for me I'm in love with a melon Yeah, they remind me of me I'm in love with a melon There's an openness and honesty I'm in love with a melon But a chasm where the past should be In the emerald face Of my Cucurbitaceous date I see a weight bearing down on a conscience that fancies itself more ethical than it was before You were a cad and you fooled around But you want to make improvements now Life was short before the bomb And it's gotten shorter since the cataclysm I think that I'm in love with a melon Yeah I think they're right for me I'm in love with a melon Yeah, they remind me of me I'm in love with a melon They've a sketchy sexual history But I'm in love with them! The stars are out tonight Because they're rationing the light If I took your green hand Would you run with me? The stars are out tonight Because they're rationing the light So I take your green hand I think that I'm in love with a melon Yeah I think they're right for me I'm in love with a melon Yeah, they remind me of me I'm in love with a melon They are sweet and they are seedy I'm in love with a melon They are a typical I.N.F.P. The stars are out tonight Because they're rationing the light If I took your green hand Would you run with me?

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