Momus - Marquis Of Sadness lyrics

They've announced the new writer in residence They've announced his name But we'll call him Marquis of Sadness The professors say he's sad He's the leading light of the Bitterati But we will invite him to our party I'll get along quite nicely in this university In my little office with its sofa and its key They'll call on me at all hours for gin and sympathy Bringing bad but intimate poetry They've announced the new writer in residence And the cleverest girls in the arts faculty Must read poetry in his presence And if our poems are bad They'll still be evidence Of our desire to make him desire us I'll get along quite nicely in this university In my little office with its sofa and its key They'll call on me at all hours for gin and sympathy Bringing bad but intimate poetry Bad but intimate poetry They've announced the new writer in residence We've read all his books And now we're longing for his presence And the more he tells us we're bad It might sound strange but in our madness The more we'll fall in love with the Marquis of Sadness I'll get along quite nicely in this university In my little office with its sofa and its key They'll call on me at all hours for gin and sympathy Bringing bad but intimate poetry Bad but intimate poetry (Marquis of Sadness) Bad but intimate (Marquis of Sadness) Bad but intimate (Marquis of Sadness) Bad but intimate (Marquis of Sadness) Bad but intimate (Marquis of Sadness) Bad but intimate (Marquis of Sadness) Bad but intimate (Marquis of Sadness) Bad but intimate (Marquis of Sadness) Bad but intimate (Marquis of Sadness) (Marquis of Sadness)