Scritti Politti - Jacques Derrida

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from the 1982 Rough Trade album
"Songs to Remember"

album credits:
Green Gartside - vocals, guitar
Mike MacEvoy - keyboards
Robert Wyatt - keyboards
Tom Morley - drums
Nial Jinks - bass
Joe Cang - bass
Lorenza Johnson, Jackie Challenor, Mae McKenna - backing vocals
Steve Sidwell - trumpet
Jamie Talbot - saxophone

I'm in love with the bossonova
He's the one with the cashanova
I'm in love with his heart of steel
I'm in love
I'm in love with the bossonova
He's the one with the cashanova
I'm in love with his heart of steel
I'm in love

How come no-one ever told me
Who I'm working for
Down among the rich men baby
And the poor

Here comes love forever
And it's here comes love for no-one
Oh here comes love for Marilyn
And it's oh my baby oh-oh my baby
What you gonna do?
In the reason - in the rain

Still support the revolution

I want it I want it I want that too
B'baby B'baby it's up to you
To find out somethin' that you need to do
Because

I'm in love with a Jacques Derrida
Read a page and know what I need to
Take apart my baby's heart
I'm in love
I'm in love with a Jacques Derrida
Read a page and know what I need to
Take apart my baby's heart
I'm in love

To err is to be human
To forgive is too divine
I was like an industry
Depressed and in decline

Here comes love for ever
And it's here comes love for no-one
Oh here comes love for Marilyn
And it's oh my baby oh my baby
What you gonna do?
In the reason - in the rain

Still support the revolution

I want it I want it I want that too
B'baby B'baby it's up to you
To find out somethin' that you need to do
Because

Oh I'm in love with bop sh'dayo
Out of Camden Town for a day - oh
I'm in love with just gettin' away
I'm in love
Oh I'm in love with militante
Reads Unita and reads Avanti
I'm in love with her heart of steel
I'm in love

He held it like a cigarette
Behind a squadee's back
He held it so he hid its length
And so he hid its lack - oh
An' it seems so very sad
(all right!)

Well I want better than you can give
But then I'll take whatever you got
Cos I'm a grand libertine with the
Kinda demeanour to overthrow the lot
I said rapacious
Rapacious you can never satiate
(ate what?!) desire is so voracious
I wanna eat your nation state

I got incentive that you can't handle
I got the needs you can't assuage
I got demands you can't meet
'n' stay on your feet
I want more than your living wage

Well I want better than you can give
But then I'll take whatever you got
Cos I'm a grand libertine with the
Kinda demeanour to overthrow the lot
I said rapacious
Rapacious you can never satiate
(ate what?!) desire is so voracious
I wanna eat your nation state.

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Tags:

• Scritti
• Politti
• Jacques
• Derrida

[sitwosaints]

Right with you on that; a hilarious line that gets funnier as it sinks in deeper. Problem with green is he got rich... Richer than he was ( him were a trustafarian in the first place). Just like the gang of four who live in la la city now and are up their own...

[Mehefinheulog1]

yes I love the Gand of Four - Jiang Qing was my favourite!

la la city? isn't that where the ultra rich Telly Tubbies retired to??

[Jamie165]

Bassline is divine.

[TheMushroomone]

Here comes love for Marilyn - I love Mr Gartside in any guise xxxx Loved him for 30+ yrs xxxxx You don't get any greater love than that - Love and white chocolate xxx

[clem1578]

i dont personally think that line is as funny as 'to err is to be human, to forgive is too divine/ i was like an industry, depressed and in decline'. but its all very individual, taste isnt it?

[napoleonbonerpart]

This is such a great LP. Really can't understand the way Green went in later records, it's like he's trying to be like Duran Duran / ABC / Tina Turner, all those brash 80s groups who made 'being successful' their main attribute.... but he's like the nerd who isn't one of the gang, hanging around with the big kids.

A song in praise of the bullying boss man. But then at the urinal "he held it like a cigarette behind a squaddie's back, he held it so he hid its length and so he hid it's lack"

[055697]

Gloriously pretentious!

[AlbertoSG1288]

One of my favorites songs.

[TheKunig]

Beautiful song

[marcelkonings60]

brilliant