• Song:

    The Actors Opprobrium

  • Artist:

    Of Montreal

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I guess I should have known to stay away
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From a snuff film by Jean Genet
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But the cash was good and the 
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Director gave me the biggest scene
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What does it mean when Pentecostal born-again virgins
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Appear picketing in angry protest?
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Oh, those sloppy tarts 
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Have sulphurized hearts


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Sure, a dead man quietly pulling on his tongue 
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In a coffin after being hung
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Does make strange erotic cinema 
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But that was the great master?s vision
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And the actors agree to portray 
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The fiend is best in a death fantasy
Because when one is licking the knife
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Ah, well, that is truly the life

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Oh, what does it mean 
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When the stagehand approaches 
Wheeling in a guillotine?
Let?s play nice
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Yes, I want to be a star 
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But that?s going too far


Yes, I?m still smarting from the bite 
Of coital sessions in gelatinal light
I?m questioning my chosen career 
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Don?t think I?ll be attending the premier

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