Melancholia
by Modesty Blaise
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Streaming + DownloadIncludes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
The award-winning album including Bonus Disc - The Melancholia Sessions originally available on CD only in Japan and as the fourth side of the double vinyl album. Including Melancholia-era photos, some previously unpublished, and original booklet plus Japanese booklet too.Purchasable with gift card£6 GBP or more
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Record/Vinyl + Digital AlbumOriginal pressing of the cult classic double album on yellow and orange clear vinyl.
Apricot Records Aprivin 016
Includes unlimited streaming of Melancholia via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.ships out within 5 days£10 GBP or more
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital AlbumThe original cult classic album on Apricot Records
Apricd 016
Includes unlimited streaming of Melancholia via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.ships out within 5 days£6 GBP or more
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Full Digital Discography
Get all 15 Modesty Blaise releases available on Bandcamp and save 40%.
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of I'll Be Home For Xmas, The Modesty Blaise, Blue and Beautiful, Girls Just Wanna Dance (single), Natalie Vendredi, I Love You, Carol Mountain EP, Melancholia, and 7 more.
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Chorale
01:07
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Carol Mountain
05:58
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I called you up in the middle of the night
Got you out of bed, guess I gave you a fright
Still, when you're famous you can do what you like
Put on my robe, got into the car
Respectable neighbours think I've gone too far
If you can't be weird, why become a star?
Carol Mountain I'll get over you someday, someday
Carol Mountain I'll get over you someday, someday
Drive me to Ann Arbor, put me on a plane
Got to be in Chicago, see the boys again
While I'm away assemble all my friends
Have them at the airport in the Visitor's Lounge
We'll get snap-happy when I touch down
Tell Durrie Parks she'll have to sit on the ground
Carol Mountain I'll get over you someday, someday
Carol Mountain I'll get over you someday, someday
I saw your husband and he wears a gun
You should have married me now I'm the wealthy one
Carol Mountain I'll get over you someday, someday
Carol Mountain I'll get over you someday, someday
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Old Woman
05:14
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Somewhere there's an Old Woman with a knife
And designs on my life, 'cause I wouldn't make her my wife
Somewhere there's an old man with a gun
Says that he's the only one
To put an end to my decadence, my self-absorption
Somewhere there's an old lush with my name
Marked indelibly on her brain and she says that I'm to blame
Somewhere there's a jailbird on parole
Says the fault lies with rock & roll
And he'll exact revenge for everyone, stop those voices in his head
Na Na Na Na Na Na Na
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My Life Before You Came
03:14
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I can't remember My Life Before You Came
Something tells me it wasn't quite the same
What good is your life when you are living on your own?
What good to the world when you have no-one of your own?
And still I need a clinician to explain
Why I can't remember My Life Before You Came
I had almost everything then the world called my bluff
And, speaking in retrospect, the world is not enough
The same, it's not the same
No I can't remember My Life Before You Came
I can't remember my life, can't remember My Life Before You Came
I can't remember my life, can't remember My Life Before You Came
Before you came, before you came, it's not the same
What good is your life when you are living on your own?
What good to the world when you have no-one waiting for you to come home?
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Swivel Chair
00:57
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Yellow, red and sometime green
Black as black as night has seen
But on my day, yeah on my day
I can be all the four humours just rolled into one
And it's fun, and I like it that way
I like it that way
Take the table to the food
Life is rarely quite this good
But on my day, yeah on my day
I can have all the four humours just acting as one
And then nothing can get in my way
Get in my way
It's like I live in an endless fog
I'm having trouble with that old black dog
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Pretty Smart On My Part
03:58
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Let me tell you 'bout the girl that I am living with
It's fair to say I'm up all night
She plays country records 24 hours of every day
Electric bill's just out of sight
Pretty Smart On My Part wouldn't you say?
Pretty Smart On My Part anyway
Pretty Smart On My Part, I'd be lost if she were gone
We met in California State when we were still at school
She's in the classroom next to mine
I switched all my courses just to be in the very same room
I guess you'd say it turned out fine
Pretty Smart On My Part wouldn't you say?
Pretty Smart On My Part anyway
Pretty Smart On My Part, I'd be lost if she were gone
There are those who mistake prose for poetry, prose for poetry
She would never do that, no, she's the same as me, she's the same as me
That's why I love her so
Pretty Smart On My Part wouldn't you say?
Pretty Smart On My Part anyway
Pretty Smart On My Part
Pretty Smart On My Part wouldn't you say?
Pretty Smart On My Part anyway
Pretty Smart On My Part
Pretty Smart On My Part wouldn't you say?
Pretty Smart On My Part anyway
Pretty Smart On My Part, I'd be lost if she were gone
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Even In My Darkest Hour I knew
That you'd be there for me
When the nurse turned off the power and threw
The switch to set me free
When it all comes down to where you are and who you know
Then, my friend it's sad to say goodbye but it's time to go
Even in my quietest moment of doubt I knew
That you'd be there
When they said I was never coming out
That I had no time to spare
When you've given all you have and still it's not enough
Then, my friend, it's sad to say but it's time to call death's bluff
Too continent to be
Too ignorant to see
That I've been living a lie
I've been living a lie
Yeah I've been living a lie, and so have you
(And that's all I have to say on the matter)
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It's The Little Things You Do that mean so much to me
It's the way the sunlight skips across the sea
Whisper my name
My picture in a frame above your bed where no-one else can see
It's your rank indifference and impropriety
It's the little things that mean so much to me
How could I lie?
I'm all cut up inside where lovers come and lovers ought to be
It's the way you think we live in a democracy
That makes me kind of yearn for such naivety
Where did it go?
It's the way your picture overloads my memory
It's the little things that mean so much to me
What can I do?
I'm so obsessed by you there's wonderment in everything I see
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I'm Going Out
02:49
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I'm Going Out
Out where the people are
Out in the clubs and bars
Of my ruin
I'm Going Out
Out where the air is stale
Out in that living hell
That's what I'm doing
'Cause I know that if I stay any longer
Then I know that I must always stay
And I'm feeling that the fear's growing stronger
It's growing stronger day by day by day
I'm Going Out
Out almost every night
Out where they drink and fight
Just for pleasure
I'm Going Out
Out and there's no mistake
Out past my garden gate
As that's my new measure
'Cause I know that if I stay any longer
Then I know that I must always stay
And I'm feeling that the fear's growing stronger
It's growing stronger day by day by day by day by day by day
I'm not staying in
So face it darling you're not gonna win
Just think about the times you heard me say
I'm getting stronger day by day by day
I'm Going Out
Well, maybe tomorrow night
That is, if I feel alright
Yes, I'll be going
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When We Come Of Age
06:07
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Safe in your arms
Knowing that the world can do no harm
The thrill of the night
And seeing that the world can be alright
The world is out of sight til morning
This is When We Come Of Age
I think it's When We Come Of Age
As I become you
I'm forgetting everything I knew
I'm tied to your bed
My previous life is racing from my head
Looks like I may be dead before morning
This is When We Come Of Age
I think it's When We Come Of Age
And people not yet born
Will pour ridicule and scorn
On the very idea that just we know the score
And that no-one's experienced the things we've experience before
But we know more
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People often laugh together
But usually they cry alone
Nobody should tell you 'bout the clothes you wear
Shouldn't nobody tell you how to live your own life
When we are apart we are together
But when we are together we're apart
Tired of a lie of servitude?
Shouldn't nobody tell you what to write on your own grave
It Sounds Like Love
Sounds Like Love
Usually we'll sit on the sofa
But every now and then we'll take the floor
Nobody can blame you for the friends you have
Shouldn't nobody tell you how to live your own life
It Sounds Like Love
Sounds Like Love
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Goodnight Los Angeles, I'll be going
I hate to leave before my job is done
But I've got to kiss and run
And, since you ask, your age is showing
I'll leave you gazing through the haze
Until you see the setting son
'Cause We Are Love
Yeah We Are Love
Hey San Francisco you've been calling
I'd like to slide into your golden time
With pink and lemon lime
And ever since I quit my stalling
I know I'm destined to become your favourite son
If you don't mind
'Cause We Are Love
Yeah We Are Love
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We're going down to The Love-In
We're going down, are you coming down down down down down?
We're going down to The Love-In
We're going down, are you coming down down down down down?
Are you coming down down down down down?
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Chorale (Reprise)
00:43
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I called you up in the middle of the night
Got you out of bed, guess I gave you a fright
Still, when you're famous you can do what you like
Put on my robe, got into the car
Respectable neighbours think I've gone too far
If you can't be weird, why become a star?
Carol Mountain I'll get over you someday, someday
Carol Mountain I'll get over you someday, someday
Drive me to Ann Arbor, put me on a plane
Got to be in Chicago, see the boys again
While I'm away assemble all my friends
Have them at the airport in the Visitor's Lounge
We'll get snap-happy when I touch down
Tell Durrie Parks she'll have to sit on the ground
Carol Mountain I'll get over you someday, someday
Carol Mountain I'll get over you someday, someday
I saw your husband and he wears a gun
You should have married me now I'm the wealthy one
Carol Mountain I'll get over you someday, someday
Carol Mountain I'll get over you someday, someday
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Goodnight Los Angeles, I'll be going
I hate to leave before my job is done
But I've got to kiss and run
And, since you ask, your age is showing
I'll leave you gazing through the haze
Until you see the setting son
'Cause We Are Love
Yeah We Are Love
Hey San Francisco you've been calling
I'd like to slide into your golden time
With pink and lemon lime
And ever since I quit my stalling
I know I'm destined to become your favourite son
If you don't mind
'Cause We Are Love
Yeah We Are Love
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credits
released January 19, 2001
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