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lyrics for
Seconds Of Pleasure

You say you don't desire me
You only hire me. Now you tire me
Inexpensive care is meaningless
Feeling nothing and caring less

Cut off at the pass
She knows where you were headed
She wants double-time
Or a temporary wedding

And the lucky girl leads a life of leisure
Though she might have to wait forty-five years
For seconds of pleasure

Crowds surround loudspeakers on a lamp-post
Listening to the murder mystery
Meanwhile someone’s in the classroom
Busy forging the books of history

I wouldn’t give that man my hand
He’d probably steal my fingers
So the sleuth ends up in stitches
And your urges turn to itches

And the lucky girl leads a life of leisure
Though she might have to wait forty-five years
For seconds of pleasure

I was committed to life
And then commuted to the outskirts
I was living for thirty minutes at a time
With a break in the middle for adverts

In the strong arms of your human furniture
You say "when", you say "so"
Well you can look all that you like
But I won't let you touch and go

And the lucky girl leads a life of leisure
Though she might have to wait forty-five years
For seconds of pleasure

And the lucky girl leads a life of leisure
Though she might have to wait forty-five years
For seconds of pleasure