Want To Buy Some Illusions lyrics

Song information

Artist: Marianne Faithfull
Album: 20th Century Blues

Lyrics

Want to buy some illusions
Slightly used, second-hand ?
They were lovely illusions
Reaching high, built on sand
They had a touch of paradise
A spell you can't explain
For in this crazy paradise
You are in love with pain

Want to buy some illusions
Slightly used, just like new ?
Such romantic illusions
And they're all about you
Too bad they all fell apart
Like dreams often do
They were lovely illusions
But they just wouldn't come true

Slightly used, just like new
Such romantic illusions
And they're all about you
I'd sell them all for a penny
They make pretty souvenirs
Take my lovely illusions
Some for laughs, some for tears

On this next song, I'm using the translation, a new translation done by one of my best, best, best, best friends in ireland, the playwriter and poet, frank mcguinness, and he did a new translation of the threepenny opera about four or five years ago, and I played pirate jenny in that production at the gate theatre in dublin. and I love this translation, I think it's so exceptional. in this song, jenny who is a prostitute and a waitress in a, in a, in a shitty hotel, er, obviously on the docks, and, and macheath is her pimp, is imagining, is having a fantasy of what she would do to those who oppress her if she could

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