@ALBUM: Fruit of the Original Sin
The Durutti Column

Lyrics transcribed by R Stanzel
and Michael B. Branch
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93/06/07

@SONG: Party

Dreams burnt out forever
Dreams burnt out forever
This is a party
How did I get here
This is a party
How did I get here
Always left lying slumped in a chair
Wondering why the room's so bare
Unable to leave
Unable to leave
Turn off the light
Turn off the glare
The girl I came with
Lying drunk on the floor
I don't remember her name
It doesn't matter anymore
Still got her shoes on
She's covered in her coat

Dreams burnt out forever
Dreams burnt out forever
Abandoned to a silence
Screaming out of passion and pain
The sense of my loss
Again and again
Abandoned to a silence
Screaming out of passion and pain
The sense of my loss
Again and again

This is a party
How did I get here
[fade]

@SONG: Weakness and Fever

This dream lasts forever
It goes on and on (it goes on and on)
This dream lasts forever
It goes on and on (it goes on and on)

[chorus]
I want your special smile
A smile in this crowd (in this crowd)
I want your special smile
A smile in this crowd (in this crowd)
Images calling me away
To a place I never knew before
Images calling me away
To a place I never knew before
Here in the present
We reach for the past
Here in the present
We reach for the past
The rest is unreal

The act was committed
A name was uttered
Showing off our weakness
And our fever
Waiting in vain
Our confusion
The senseless consequences

All I ever do is take it easy (take it easy)
All you ever do is make it harder (make it harder)
For one moment I understood
A blur of features

[chorus]

Sleeping and dreaming
We search for a soul
Imitate and emerge in
One place[?]grave and some piece of land
Carry out our adventure
To the end of our lives
Settled in the distance
Consolation of sin
Confess yourself beaten
Consolation within

I want your special smile
In this crowd (in this crowd)
I want your special smile
A smile in this crowd
This dream lasts forever
It goes on and on (goes on and on)
This dream lasts forever
It goes on and on