Joel Forrester
Jedible Music (BMI)
additional lyrics by Michael Callen
(It’s the)
Twentieth Century Pretense
they find you guilty when you’re feelin’ blue
I got too tired playing defense
My lifelong love affair with sex is through
I never knew I could take it or leave it
What kind of fool does it take to believe that
old refrain about a boy and a girl
in a holy dream?
I want to scream!
I always thought if I came on the hour
that it would lead me to fame and to power
Now I see a burning love affair is not for me
I gave it up ’cause
Asexual partnering enthralls me
I live with a roommate of a similar sex
We try to avoid any kind of contact between us
except little performances, strictly for the public
I mean to tell you it makes living easy
I used to suffer the shakes
from a queasy, sick desire
before I threw the water on my fire
and his!
Some say it’s better to give than receive it
They lie, so why even try to believe
that worn out phrase
that says it’s just some crazy phase
I’m goin’ through
I say, screw you
I used to think if I came in my shower
that it would lead me to flame on and flower
Now I see
a burning love affair is not for me
I gave it up ’cause
Asexual partnering enthralls me
I live with a roommate
of a sort of a similar sex
We try to avoid
any kind of contact between us
except little performances
strictly for the public
I got a role in the vanguard of fashion
Without a soul or a man or a passion over me
a piece of liberated property
Fuck Free!
Piano: Joel Forrester
Bass: David Hofstra
Drums: Richard Dworkin
Yma Sumac descant: Michael Callen