We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Menuet

from The Guardian by Matt Kaye

/

lyrics

The carousel is honkin'
A haunting menuet
The happy Jack is yearnin'
But the crowd's already dead
Ya ever seen a man with
No future in the mail
The Platters may be singin'
But that ship ain't gonna sail

You see, nobody's ringin'
At my front door anymore
Company's overrated
Irma la Douce is still a whore
A woman, pretty lonesome,
Is tryin' to sneak a smile
But Frankie killed her Johnny
And went out with Nellie Bly

The carousel is honkin'
But that's not where it's at
The cole is in the bathroom
The king's without a Nat
The good ol' times are gone now
The rhyme's been overused
Look at them lonely people
Still dancin' to Blue Suede Shoes

The carousel is honkin'
A haunting menuet
The happy Jack is yearnin'
But the crowd's already dead
A woman, pretty lonesome,
Is tryin' to sneak a smile
But Frankie killed her Johnny
And went out with Nellie Bly

credits

from The Guardian, released August 1, 2019

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Matt Kaye Ljubljana, Slovenia

Born in 1975 in Maribor, Slovenia (EU). He holds a master’s degree in comparative literature. He published his first book in 1988 and started combining poetry and music into a singer-songwriter routine in 1992. He's a member of SLO National Writers’ Association, National Literary Translators Association, PEN and MIRA. ... more

contact / help

Contact Matt Kaye

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

If you like Matt Kaye, you may also like: