The Auteurs - Married to a lazy lover

Sack the maid - put her in chains until
She says that its painless and i
Couldnt care less

Twenty years
Married to a lazy lover
Twenty years
Mixing alcohol and downers
Sack the maid
For dealing in state propoganda
Sack the state

What would your common lover do
Beat the daylights out of you?
Its a national threat
Married to a lazy lover
Against the west
Married to a lazy lover
I could teach him how to drink
But he just threw up in the sink

The man from the ministy
Didnt have to say
That your lovers on the shelf
Would he bite the bit
Or split my lip?
Anyway this marriage is annulled.

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• lazy
• lover
• haines
• after
• murder
• park

[sodacakeblues]

classic and still unknown ...amongst the spoilt generations

[ysfaljanabi]

insane . pure Genius.

YSF

[grahamlaur]

If Radiohead were good.... they would be The Auteurs.

[simonafdu]

A GREAT ONE!!!!!!!!

[MrThomyorkey]

A song that's brutal and beautiful.

[sodacakeblues]

@Wonkosart, aside from earlier comments (this song fascinates me), I say this is an allegory of domestic violence representing 1 of following: socialist advance as threat 2 imperialist order, hence the lyric "sack the maid - for dealing in state propaganda", or the post-communist break-up of Russia (u get that from the Eastern European feel to the song). Or mayb the crushing of Saddam's tin-pot dictatorship in Iraq? 4 which lyric at the end "a Jewish prince is on a hill" is part'ly interesting

[franzphoto]

leighann moss is a gothic mosh lord

[atakd]

Sometimes, even when you're stuck up your own arse a far as L.H., you can still make superlative music. Again and again.....

[sodacakeblues]

as with most works of lyrical genius, it is multilayered in meaning. I think most directly it speaks of the enemy within, with lyrical references to the lyrical subject being "against the west". Could be intepretated to mean fundamentalist terrorists. Interestin to x-ref this with lyrics in another song on the same album called "Land Lovers', which could have had the Taliban in mind "..made you a target for American bombers". Lots of references to those apart from the herd on Murder Pk.