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fear; a feeling of alarm or dread

When I went I left from the station

With a haversack and some trepidation

Someone said: "If you're not careful

get back; get or find back; recover the use of

Will you love me or leave me?

I'm here, retrieve me

Don't say it's over, over, over

middle-class; a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise

'Til I'm mugging up on the penal code

Love is a bourgeois construct

So I've given up the bourgeoisie

document; a small book usually having a paper cover

I probably would

Pick up a brochure about the sun

Learn to ignore what the photographer saw

build; make by combining materials and parts

'Til I'm mugging up on the penal code

Love is a bourgeois construct

So I've given up the bourgeoisie

expected; capable of being foretold

superficial and true

Easy and predictable

exciting and new

illusion; (psychology) an incorrect belief that is held in spite of evidence to the contrary

In time for benediction

Living a law just short of delusion

When we fall in love, there's confusion

distant; remote in manner

I know it's time I should grow-up

I ask you if you care, you stand and stare aloof

It hurts too much to face the truth

mystery; something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained

My predicament is simply this

You're an enigma even when you kiss

You won't tell me what or when or how

popular leader, troublemaker; a political leader who appeals to passions and prejudices

But gunpoint has a firm voice

The joke is I'm not even a demagogue

Have you heard me giving a speech?

the other side or team; a contestant that you are matched against

Discussing conspiracies and prison facilities

For opponents I can never release

And there'll be no peace

heroic poem; a long narrative poem telling of a hero’s deeds

Where you fight and then you kiss (Do you call me a fool?)

The feeling of epic grandeur

At the end of a summer's day

differ; be in contradiction with

Our dignity and injured innocence

It contradicts your battle scars

Still healed so far

chase; carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in

And there's an undertow

I've got to pursue you

There's an undertow

criticize or belittle; cause to seem less serious; play down

It's a phase he's going through

Denigrate or speculate

On what I'm going through

keep down; put down by force or intimidation

Our best excuse for emergency laws

Invoked so often to explain and subdue

The forgotten child from whom we all grew

occur at the same time or in the same place; go with, fall together

About love and luck

And do they coincide?

And how you can feel disqualified

unnecessary; serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being

Anyone else around

would be superfluous

Although the dark

responsibility; the state of being bound or forced to do or pay something

Take my hand

Don't think of obligations

Now, right now

distressed; excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion

to fly you back from far away

all those dark and frantic

transatlantic miles

depressed; directed downward

Like Ringo walking by the canal

Downcast and alone

You're taking time to play that part

apathy; unbiased impartial unconcern

in a robot world

Greeted with indifference

but they're always with us

most typical; following accepted customs and proprieties

But I don't give up any night

You could say conventional

And I could claim intentional

commonplace; repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse

He doesn't trust what he hasn't seen

He's so banal, he's made it mainstream

I see the tension in his eyes

unaware; (followed by `to’ or `of’) lacking conscious awareness of

Did you walk on a stormy night

oblivious to the rain?

Did you ever decide that the time was right

hold back; keep under control; keep in check

you must be careful, Jack

Don't let them try to restrain you

This is your only religion

hermit; one who lives in solitude

The urban jet setter never at home

Or the country recluse, just leave me alone

Extrovert or introvert

patronize; do something that one considers to be below one’s dignity

to dream and hope

someday you'll deign to phone me

Oh, baby call me

friendship; the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability

For cruelty and manhood are synonymous, it seems

And we knew camaraderie

In the Lost Room, our hideaway

major change; the marked and rapid transformation of a larva into an adult

You grow up and experience this

a total metamorphosis

It's all about change

hiding place; a shelter from danger or hardship

Jumped the barrier at Orly Airport

Claimed political asylum there

Took all the KGB boys by surprise

additionally; in addition

can't understand why you'd be with me

Furthermore we laugh and we draw

more attention every day so they say

included; existing as an essential constituent or characteristic

Long live us the persuaded we

Integral collectively

To the whole project it's brand new

occur earlier; be earlier in time; go back further

Or will spring bring rain and summer burn?

Will tears at last precede the turn

From summer warmth to sudden cold

think over; reflect deeply on a subject

in Luna dreams

Fortune-tellers muse

on palms that bode bad news

destruction; an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something

Bombed mission statements and tightening of belts

Demolition of familiar landmarks

Promises made and deals that were dealt

mystifying; of an obscure nature

I long for

your inscrutable pale face

covering; cover with veneer

You can sneer or disappear

Behind a veneer of self-control

But for all of those

falling apart; in deplorable condition

When loneliness induces fear

like waves against a ramshackle pier

When thunder and rain

early; characterized by very early development or maturity (especially in mental aptitude)

we were spies among the ruins

Such precocious barbarians

On TV we saw

unreturned; not returned in kind

I wonder what you saw?

Not quite unrequited lover

Or just another whore?

think about something constantly; haunt like a ghost; pursue

I visualise the flashbacks

School, home cross obsess

Heart is too much of everything

splendor; the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand

And I'll rule the world

All of these delusions of grandeur

Because they said, "We don't understand you"

amusing; humorously sarcastic or mocking

Always that

ironic twist

Got a start-up

seeming; concerned with or comprehending only what is apparent or obvious

and still wanted you more

It may sound superficial

but can we make it official?

generous; noble and generous in spirit

They kiss my ring in interviews on bended knees

In victory, I'm magnanimous and charming when

I speak exclusively at length to CNN

suggest; express or state indirectly

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Don't you dare imply

That it's grim up North

rebel; break with established customs

In her heart

she's not even a renegade

From the start

having authority; clearly defined or formulated

of his sexual vocation

Makes the definitive collection

His lives and lovers and above all

justification; the act of vindicating or defending against criticism or censure etc.

For Casanova has the last laugh

Creates the myth and vindication

of his sexual vocation

outburst; a speech of violent denunciation

An inspirational tirade against me

How to explain my life?

corresponding; the relation between things with respect to their quantity or degree

If you think this is important

Your sense of proportion has gone"

I said: "Really?"

a striking or unlikely combination of events

It's happened before

Coincidence and patience

will mend this fatal flaw

seeming; clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment

You could see right through me

Everything apparent

What I really am

pleasure seeker; someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures

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The husband or the hedonist

The businessman or the communist

ancestor; one who precedes you in time (as in holding a position or office)

Where they've unveiled a bust

Of my predecessor

Still much discussed

unnoticeable; impossible or difficult to perceive by the mind or senses

and love

an imperceptible dream

(That's what you got

trickery; shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

She understands him

His lack of guile

Her soul demands him

push down; lower someone’s spirits; make downhearted

No happy endings

but a message to depress

saying life

brutal; resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility

For once you must not try to shirk the facts

Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts

You say the girls may strip with your permission

removal; oust politically

You gentlemen who think you have a mission

To purge us of the seven deadly sins

Should first sort out the basic food position

limitation; the act of controlling by restraining someone or something

then start your preaching, that's where it begins

You lot who preach restraint and watch your waist as well

should learn for all time how the world is run