Life is… Edgy and Scary

I know it’s in extremely poor taste to be sentimental and slushy, but blogs are all about histrionics and egoism anyway, so I don’t feel I’m doing myself an injustice in perpetuating that cliché.  I’ve been listening to Pulp’s TV Movie recently.  It’s a track from their 1998 album, This is Hardcore which is, in my opinion, underrated and often overlooked for its show-tune style and the seediness of the sexual perversion motif (ooh, get me!).

The reason I’ve been listening to it is because it’s a break up song - unashamedly and overtly - and I think the lyrics are disarmingly honest and so heavily tragic that you can’t help but feel melancholic listening to it.

Without you my life has become a hangover without end.
A movie made for TV:
Bad dialogue, bad acting, no interest.
Too long with no story and no sex.
Is it a kind of weakness to miss someone so much?
To wish the day would go away?
Like you did yesterday.

OK, it’s no Wordsworth, but you’ve got to admire Jarvis.

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