Belle And Sebastian - Marx And Engels

Another great piece by Belle And Sebastian, I'm loving it.

There's misery in all I hear and see
From people on TV
After their tea when life begins again
They'll be happier than me

There are a thousand meals being made on Saturday
From the view I saw today
I took a bet inside the launderette
With a girl from Wallasey

She spoke in dialect I could not understand
But one thing that she made clear
There was no coming on to her
There was no way

Instrumental

There's misery in all I hear and see
From people on TV
After their tea when life begins again
They'll be happier than me

There are a thousand meals being made on Saturday
From the view I saw today
I took a bet inside the launderette
With a girl from Wallasey

She spoke in dialect I could not understand
But one thing that she made clear
There was no coming on to her
There was no intellect
That she could respect
If it couldn't see
That the girl just wants to be
Left alone with Marx and Engels for a while
She's writing in the style
Of any riot girl

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[LtBlue14]

At 1:45 Sarah paraphrases Marx and Engels in the background, singing: "The bourgeois, historically, has played a revolutionary part to end all feudal, idyllic relationships.

It has resolved personal worth and, in place of freedom, is exploitation for profit alone.

There is a spectre of the past in my bold assertion.

We could learn much from the past."

Sarah has written that she sings "destroyed" instead of "resolved," but I can't hear it - I think she's misremembering.

[BorisDay]

Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful

[speranza91986]

@dfserafine No, it's definitely Sarah not Isobel.

[SoapsAreStupid]

Anyone have piano sheet?

[FlorrieDugger]

@sunsplash1980 shhhh....(wispers) mine too.

[dfserafine]

I think you will find that it is Isobel Paraphrasing Marx and Engels

[rainkame2]

A great song, thougn I am wondering what this song has to do with Marx & Engels.

[rykkye]

the outro sounds a bit like Erik Satie, sounds like autumn and it's beautiful!

[sunsplash1980]

my favorite B & S song.

[ModestMousekateer]

@LtBlue14 Perhaps she sings 'destroyed' live?

[XIIIX]

queen anyone?

[brutuscassius1]

@falstaffswims: funny how the whigs (and perhaps by extension the modern neo-conservatives) and communists share a view of history as progess. Tories, traditional tories, focus instead on organic roots and attempt to move forward with reference to the past.