Текст (слова) песни: Marianne Faithfull - Want To Buy Some Illusions
Want to buy some illusions Slightly used, second-hand ? They were lovely illusions, Reaching high, built on sand. They had a touch of paradise, A spell you can`t explain, For in this crazy paradise You are in love with pain.
Want to buy some illusions Slightly used, just like new ? Such romantic illusions, And they`re all about you. Too bad they all fell apart Like dreams often do. They were lovely illusions, But they just wouldn`t come true.
Slightly used, just like new, Such romantic illusions And they`re all about you. I`d sell them all for a penny, They make pretty souvenirs. Take my lovely illusions, Some for laughs, some for tears.
On this next song, I`m using the translation, a new translation done by one of my best, best, best, best friends in Ireland, the playwriter and poet, Frank McGuinness, and he did a new translation of the Threepenny Opera about four or five years ago, and I played Pirate Jenny in that production at the Gate Theatre in Dublin. And I love this translation, I think it`s so exceptional. In this song, Jenny who is a prostitute and a waitress in a, in a, in a shitty hotel, er, obviously on the docks, and, and Macheath is her pimp, is imagining, is having a fantasy of what she would do to those who oppress her if she could.
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