Satanic Summer Nights
from Absalom by Donovan Quinn
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lyrics
Ubermensch underground product of experiment
Spilling wine in an incense tenement
Bless the road so long so black
That brought us here that’ll bring us back
In a game with no rules
Bleached moon torn from a skeleton
Rented rooms for private rebellions
Daybreak dump truck still drunk blues
The ghost of sheets is looking for her shoes
It’s a game with no rules
I just tilt my wings
I just pack my things
She packed her things tried to make conversation
Like a well-intentioned friend
If I’d known what we’d been fighting for
I’d never have gone to war
Paul quit smoking through hypnosis
Now she wants to try that with me
Paul was her ex and then I was next
And now who’s it going to be?
She moved her things to her brothers
And her brothers going to Spain
With some girl who wears too much makeup
No, I never can remember her name
She looks like Amanda Summers
That girl who crashed in my room
We’d put the bed by the window
And blow smoke rings at the moon
It’s another girl, another world today
Amanda Summers is far, far, far away
Far, far, far away
She said “I hate you” with such grace
You’d never know it was the end of times
To look at that face
So I threw down my leather jacket
And quit the Ramones
We’d been in the van too long
It was time to go back home
Summertime for the Sodomites
We dance the dance
We do the rites
Satanic Summer Nights
It’s these self-deceptions, my pretty friend
That truly fuck with me in the end
So I jumped into the swimming pool
A cannonball, a Brian Jones
Saying “I don’t want to play sitar anymore
“I’m leaving the Rolling Stones”
Summertime for the Sodomites
I’m losing my wife
You say I was untrue, but, hey
You ruined my life, you ruined my life, you ruined my life
Far, far, far away
Amanda
Summertime for the Sodomites
Do what thou wilt
Do whatever you like
Satanic Summer Nights
Spilling wine in an incense tenement
Bless the road so long so black
That brought us here that’ll bring us back
In a game with no rules
Bleached moon torn from a skeleton
Rented rooms for private rebellions
Daybreak dump truck still drunk blues
The ghost of sheets is looking for her shoes
It’s a game with no rules
I just tilt my wings
I just pack my things
She packed her things tried to make conversation
Like a well-intentioned friend
If I’d known what we’d been fighting for
I’d never have gone to war
Paul quit smoking through hypnosis
Now she wants to try that with me
Paul was her ex and then I was next
And now who’s it going to be?
She moved her things to her brothers
And her brothers going to Spain
With some girl who wears too much makeup
No, I never can remember her name
She looks like Amanda Summers
That girl who crashed in my room
We’d put the bed by the window
And blow smoke rings at the moon
It’s another girl, another world today
Amanda Summers is far, far, far away
Far, far, far away
She said “I hate you” with such grace
You’d never know it was the end of times
To look at that face
So I threw down my leather jacket
And quit the Ramones
We’d been in the van too long
It was time to go back home
Summertime for the Sodomites
We dance the dance
We do the rites
Satanic Summer Nights
It’s these self-deceptions, my pretty friend
That truly fuck with me in the end
So I jumped into the swimming pool
A cannonball, a Brian Jones
Saying “I don’t want to play sitar anymore
“I’m leaving the Rolling Stones”
Summertime for the Sodomites
I’m losing my wife
You say I was untrue, but, hey
You ruined my life, you ruined my life, you ruined my life
Far, far, far away
Amanda
Summertime for the Sodomites
Do what thou wilt
Do whatever you like
Satanic Summer Nights
credits
from Absalom,
released December 5, 2019
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Donovan Quinn San Francisco, California
"I think probably my life would have gone differently if I had been able to afford a surfboard." -- Bobby Beausoleil from a prison cell in California.
discography
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Feb 2003
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