Song For Clay (Disappear Here) Songtext / Lyric

I am trying to be heroic

In an age of modernity

I am trying to be heroic

because all around me history sings



So I enjoy and I devour

flesh and wine and luxury

But in my heart, I am lukewarm;

nothing ever really touches me



At Les Trois Garçons

we meet at precisely 9 o'clock

I order the foie gras

and I eat it with complete disdain

Bubbles rise in champagne flutes

but when we kiss, I feel nothing



Feasting on sleeping pills

and Marlboro Reds

(self-pity won't save you)






Oh how our, our parents, they suffered for nothing

Live the dream, live the dream, live the dream

Like the 80s never happened.

People are afraid, are afraid to merge on the freeway.

Disappear here



We stroll past the queue

into the magazine launch party

I am handed a pill

and I swallow with complete disdain

Kick-drum pounds off the high-hat

Remember to look bored

We suck each others' faces

and make sure we are noticed

(The cocaine won't save you)



Because East London is a vampire

it sucks the joy right out of me

How we long for corruption in these golden years



Oh how our, our parents, they suffered for nothing

Live the dream, live the dream, live the dream

Like the 80s never happened

People are afraid, are afraid to merge on the freeway

Disappear here

Disappear here

Disappear here

Disappear here

Disappear here