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Sweet Deceit​-​the Crown Circus Sessions

by The Bathers

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Followed you one night From the Glasgow School of Art We took a night-train To Paris entranced We took a room Off the Rue Royale I played you some tunes You seemed to like rather well I needed to believe in you I needed to believe in myself I need to believe in love You wore a Delphos gown Made a sensual parade I swam around at your feet Like some spilt lemonade By the window in the moonlight I unbuttoned your dress Drank the sweet honey of our lips Felled by your sweet caress Later on in the night-time On the glistening streets I put you in a taxi I kissed your cheek Someday I might forget myself Yes someday I might forget myself But I could never forget The softness of your cheek Do I believe in you? Do I believe in myself? I don’t know but I believe in love…
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Your cat is called Rangoon Last night he played me a wee tune He said he loved you more than I do I told him that couldn’t possibly be true My cat I call him Mac Like me he only wants to win you back I told him love is endless pain But in love we have so much to gain You know the night was falling It was without hope now That I tried to carry on What is that sonic beauty? Why it’s the 20th Century exposed By a brass doorbell What is that beauty? Why she carries the summer breeze On her sleeves!
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Memory Fever 03:14
You knew my dreams Knew my little wing Knew she made me sing Til I caught a fever Could you make me see? Maybe bring her back to me Could I just see her Hey there could you end this fever? Maybe bring it all back Maybe bring it all back Had a bellyful of fever Drifting down Drifting down Can you feel it? Drifting down Drifting down Had a bellyful of fever Drifting down Still feel it Tell me now can’t you feel it Can you feel it? Couldn’t be nobody Couldn’t be nobody no more And still feel it With a bellyful of fever Man to taunt you perfectly A counterfeit Sends you still reeling Well that’s a doze of memory fever Just your memory fever Just a memory Better bring it all back Bonny bring it all back
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I was thoroughly corroded with chocolate Catching myself gazing Longingly and adoringly at you I didn’t feel so bad Considering I’d renounced everything But I felt my soul tinged Every imaginable shade of blue As you drew a face On the dust on the fire-surround Your exquisite untrammelled lashes Fluttered upwards towards me Your face was lit up By the pale lemon That was the fading sun For a few delicious seconds I held your gaze Maybe I was the one? With the essence of you Running through my veins Making life so rich It made anything seem possible Where nothing exists Except Love
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There’s a fragrance in this room Like something wafted up from an oleander Scented pool It carries the bliss of a half-remembered kiss And a vision of wild swans and The jazz kittens of cool Makes me recall Thrusting through A darkened Dance Hall Saying “I want you now if you want me at all” I’m nineteen and I’m crazy about you Yes I’m crazy about you Is that so strange? Asked myself Why my hear was beating so Swelling and bobbing As I mounted your stairs You know beauty fades Dishevelled and deranged But the fragrance remains I was deranged and derealised By your dark sweet eyes I inhale you Hold on for you How I longed for you Makes me recall Thrusting through A darkened Dance Hall And feel the bliss Of a half-remembered kiss I’m nineteen and I’m crazy about you Yes I’m crazy about you Is that so strange? Crushed by the crush Rushed by the rush Bound and tied By your dark sweet eyes How I dissolved Revolved and evolved I was deranged and derealised You were cute But I was resolute And hip! There’s a phantom In this room now Somehow conjured up From the hotel swimming pool She carries the bliss Of a half-remembered kiss And a vision of wild swans And the jazz kittens at Coole Baby I’m nineteen…
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“Is not an absence for those who love The most certain The most effective The deepest-rooted The least-destructible of presences?” I got all fuelled up By a sense so addictive I was entwined I was trapped And unwrapped Hey I’m under you spell You saw me fall Before I fell I’m under you spell You know full well Your freedom was calling Your freedom was calling Calling you not me You saw me fall Before I fell I was under your spell You know full well What you get out of love Yet I want you Perfectly counterfeit Yes I want you Wherever you are You were cute But I was resolute And hip Crushed by the crush Rushed by the rush Bound and tied By your pale blue eyes When you sail Wherever you sail Won’t you get out of life What you get out of life Won’t you get out of life What you get out of love You saw me fall before I fell I was under your spell You knew full well
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You play me like a Royal Flush I sway beneath your gentle touch Swear I’m forever yours It matters not that there I was But here I am I somehow lost my way Was led so far astray from love Long gone pistol crazed Long gone shattered haze How far you let me fall Is not clear at all I hesitate to touch To touch would be too much Like love That’s pistol crazed
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To your sister You’re still a baby But love’s a weird science It captivates If I had to chose I had to chose I’d chose to get tangled up in your hair Did you feel so right Had you reason to feel That the feeling Was so right Are you searching For an exit Because your rooms are flooded? Now I really want to hear Your masts sway Did you feel so right Had you reason to feel That the feeling Was so right Good looks And a missing change of the lights Your looks brought a travelmania And a dawn into my life Your looks brought you onto a slide of gold Please oh please will you marry me Although I’m no textiles millionaire Could you if you would Please let me explore a design To express my love To get myself tangled up in your hair By the wild ocean alone with you
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Clair de lune Tonight you’ll make me see With my customary glee And kill this fever You knew my dreams You knew my little wing You knew she made me sing I caught a fever I remember the fever Drifting down Still feel the fever Drifting down Clair de lune I’m as sick as any man might be If you could bring her back to me Could I just see her? You knew my dreams You knew my little wing You knew she made me sing Til I caught a fever Remember the fever…
11.
And then they broke down They were shoving and laughing Laughing and shoving Then the car began to roll down hill He thrust himself in front of it He managed to hold her still He didn’t know where the hell he was But he guessed it must have been Somewhere off Crown Circus Why is this feeling so rich? Why is that brave orchid in your hair? Why do I feel as though I’ll never sleep Why do I love you so on this windswept street? I think she was fumbling for the bonnet-release And her coat fell open And her perfume wafted into the night air She was all ankles and legs Ankles and legs With her thighs moulding her skirt It was too much He fell to his knees laughing He felt his head giddy at this height In a white heat All life All Gods All the seas and the stars I see in your face Why is this feeling so rich? Why is that brave orchid in your hair? Why do I feel as though I’ll never sleep After the pandemonium in this godforsaken street? They climbed to her apartment On the top floor He pulled her hair back from her face He had to ask himself why Are you so scared to fall from grace? Why must life be so full So rich and so ripe With a head, heady fragrance A beautiful poison Called Love? But I want you to remember me As a boy of nineteen Who loved your blue eyes Who loved you madly
12.
In your alligator shoes It will be your salvation If I could be those shoes It would be a revelation There’s something In the blue of your eyes Leaves me perpetually adoring you If I could be those shoes And see you when the time comes See you when the time goes home If I could be those shoes And always walking with you And sway towards a swamp Ask me why I loved you There’s something In the blue of your eyes Leaves me perpetually Sometimes Perpetually adoring you Perpetually adoring you Your psychosomania In time comes A swift on the coast A comfort to me Swift on the coast
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Sweet Deceit 00:36
By sweetly smiling I won’t appear to be Shunning you Which I don’t want to do But I must I was crushed Driven by romantic dreams Fuelled by nervous friction Really quite smitten
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Last night Amidst the chorus calls I heard your name Rise to meet me It wasn’t just a case Of first night nerves Undeterred we spoke sweetly As many other young lovers might do Just like a dream Maybe it was a dream Love’s young one come true Where the honeysuckle rose to meet me You wore a blossom divine Your words stirred the night so sweetly Said your love was forever mine An everlasting kiss All the way So full of bliss Was the kiss Of my angel my only one Behold a wreck Do you want a whistling boy to return? To sail across to your island Where the stars shine so bright Let us this last time Get cut off by the evening tide Let us this last time side by side Where the honeysuckle rose to meet me You wore a blossom divine Your words stirred the night so sweetly Said your love was forever mine An everlasting kiss All the way So full of bliss Was the kiss Of my angel my only one Blown as blossom All my foolish dreams In a blonde dirt desert May expire Through desire To see a play of moonlight on your face I’m just so tired of being alone in this place You once told me You thought it was the end You never thought I’d say I love you again Sweeter than honey Kisses of candy Melt in my mouth “She came to tell me she’d gone As if I didn’t know that As if I didn’t know my own bed” Let the honeysuckle rise to meet me You wear a blossom divine Your words stir the night so sweetly Say your love is forever mine An everlasting kiss All the way All the way
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released May 1, 2020

Produced by Chris Thomson & Sam Loup

Chris Thomson-Vocal, keyboards, guitars
Sam Loup-Bass, guitars, backing vocals
Hazel Morrison- Drums, percussion
Fermina Haze- Keyboards
James Locke-Percussion
James Grant-Backing vocal on "Perpetual Adoration"
Van Velp-Backing vocal

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