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scherzo - dance of death - benjamin britten lyrics

it’s farewell to the drawing room’s civilised cry
the professors’ sensible whereto and why
the frock coated diplomats’ social aplomb
now matters are settled with gas and bomb
the work for two pianos, the brilliant stories
of reasonable giants and remarkable fairies
the pictures, the ointments, the frangible wares
and the branches of olive are stored upstairs
for the devil has broken parole and arisen
he has dynamited his way out of prison;
out of the well where his papa throws
the rebel angel, the outcast rose
the behaving of man is a world of horror
a sedent’ry sodom and sl!ck gomorrah
i must take charge of the liquid fire
and storm the cities of human desire
for it’s order and trumpet and anger and drum!

and power and glory command you to come
the fishes are silent deep in the sea
the skies are lit up like a christmas tree
the star in the west shoots its warning cry:
“mankind is alive but mankind must die.”
so goodbye to the house with its wallpaper red
goodbye to the sheets on the warm double bed
goodbye to the beautiful birds on the wall
it’s goodbye, dear heart, goodbye to you all

- benjamin britten lyrics

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