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The Picture of Doreen Gray

from 1st EP (We never bothered thinking of a title) by Mr Kamikaze

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The lyrics were taken from a song Ed wrote that was, well, rubbish. But it had good lyrics. So we put them to one of my lyric-less songs and it pretty much worked. We still play this live too cos it's fun.

The vocals are fucking ropey on this but I like the silly high bit at the end. This may have been when I realised I can sing high vocal parts a lot better than low ones. Apparently it took another four years to equate that knowledge to writing songs with higher vocal parts. Oh well...

lyrics

Lyrics:


She had them scrape back
Lines on her face that
Spoke of her age and of the time passing by

And does she kiss with
Those collagen lips?
And when she smiles, does her face fall to bits?

She sees her picture in the mirror but the face is not hers
She’s looking like her mother looked
Staples behind her ears are holding back the years
You know she’s gonna get there soon

And she paints eyebrows where her eyebrows used to grow
Browsing magazines, she’s eyeing silicone

Now her face looks like an egg
Doreen doesn’t know what to do about it
Now she looks just like an egg
And she’s building a face so she can hide behind it

She’s getting older
Over her shoulder
The creepy-crawlies of her mortality

She’s lying in the grave
But she looks half her age!
A surge of surgeons did a dance on her face

She sees her picture in the mirror but the face is not hers
She frightens everyone she meets
Her grandchildren are scared, “What’s that thing standing there?!
A stranger, but it has no sweets…”

And she won’t go out
She’s an expressionist cubist portrait
When turned inside out
You can still see liver spots on her brain

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from 1st EP (We never bothered thinking of a title), released January 21, 2007

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New EP will be available right here on January 21st 2013! It will feature, among others, the song "I'm in a Pickle" the video for which can be found here www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_PtwEam24w

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