Fanfare For The Comic Muse

Jul 1990

Fanfare For The Comic Muse is the first studio album from The Divine Comedy. Currently not available for download.

Ignorance Is Bliss I rely upon your charity to survive I deny myself to prove that I am alive I plead guilty if sweet innocence is this I support the motion Ignorance is bliss Kill me with your kiss Bliss Whoops apocalypse Ignorance must be bliss You rely upon my charity to survive I deny myself to keep this world alive You walk headlong off the edge of the abyss I oppose the motion Ignorance is bliss Kill me with your kiss Bliss Whoops apocalypse Ignorance must be bliss... We rely upon our charity to survive We deny ourselves the luxury of life We could go on fighting till there's nothing left I propose the motion, ignorance is bliss

Indian Rain I feel as if I have been buried alive For the best part of five hundred years My body encased in a mountain of waste Until one day my face reappears My limbs, they are bent with the years they have spent In positions tormenting my soul But now they are free to emancipate me From the celibacy of this hole So turn in your grave Hold back the incoming wave Warm wind in my face like the linen and the lace Soft surrounding her waist like a mask Fresh air in my lungs like the sharing of songs Pleasure tripping our tongues through the grass New blood in my veins like red indian rain Stripping us of all the shame we possess With tears in my eyes and anguish I will cry I was free all the time I confess So turn in your grave Hold back the incoming wave So turn in your grave... Hold back the incoming wave Of indian rain Indian rain

Bleak Landscape I cannot reconcile myself to this I wish I could I cannot live the life I ought to live I know I should I cannot bring myself to pray Except to wish these words away They echo round my head But soon they will escape across the bleak landscape There is a tree that grows out of this earth It stands alone There is a wind that shaped it from its birth By whom the seed was sown I cannot bring myself to sing It is a wild untethered ting that echoes round my head But soon it will escape across the bleak landscape I cannot bring myself to speak Except to wish myself asleep, asleep But every word unuttered Only serves to clutter up my head And when I go to bed I dream that Soon I will escape across the bleak landscape And soon we shall escape across our very own bleak landscape

Tailspin Tailspin, is the world gonna win? Is the ocean gonna open up and let us in? Hard luck, your policies suck Your rhetoric will save your face but not your skin This crime is hard to define So watch the leaves turn brown for the last time Too late, you've sealed our fate No u-turns, no emergency debate But wait I hate unhappy endings And there doesn't have to be one Tailspin, the airs getting thin The ocean;s getting sick of all the crap you're pumping in Test ban, get a real good tan Your rhetoric'll save your face but not your cancerous skin- Deep, life is cheap The forests pine and the willow's weep Check-mate, you've sealed our fate The world is way past it's sell-by date But wait I hate unhappy endings And there doesn't have to be one Tailspin, is the world gonna win? Tailspin, from the outside looking in Tailspin, I repent my sins But when I get to heaven will he let me in? Tailspin, save our skins Save our skins But wait I hate unhappy endings And there doesn't have to be one The message we are sending Is a very real one The world we are defending Could be a very green one We all hate unhappy endings And there doesn't have to be one There doesn't have to be one There doesn't have to be a tailspin

The Rise And Fall The rise and fall, the fall and rise The freezing breath, the frightened eyes The rise and fall, the fall and rise The naked truth, the naked eye Hold me in your arms Hold me till you kill me Hold me till you break my will And passion fills my heart The rise and fall, the fall and rise The open heart, the opened eyes The rise and fall, the fall and rise My lady laughs, my lady cries She cries Hold me in your arms Hold me till you kill me Hold me till you break my will And passion fills my heart The rise and fall, the fall and rise The holy ghost is exorcised And you and I shall no longer Look at life through half-closed eye Hold me in your arms Hold me till you kill me Hold me till you break my will And passion fills my heart... Passion fills my heart

Logic Vs Emotion I stood upon the listed bridge dividing different images Logic verses emotion A mountain stream verses the ocean Will we ever learn? Logic verses emotion Politicians carry the motion Will we ever learn? I'll take you upstream Up to my origin My water pure as glass My beauty everlasting I was here before you A million years before you I can only warn you I'll be here when you're gone "Leave my house alone I won't leave my home" Said the old lady Kneeling by the river-bank crying "Leave our valley alone You're destroying our home" Chorused the creatures Watching as their paradise disappeared I stood upon the listed bridge dividing different images I'll take you downstream Down where they turn me green I suffer the indignity Of administering your poisons to the sea The impurity of maturity Teach them all the appreciation of beauty "Leave my house alone I won't leave my home" Said the old lady Kneeling by the river-bank crying "Leave our valley alone You're destroying our home" Chorused the creatures Watching as their paradise disappeared under the water I stood upon the listed bridge dividing different images Logic verses emotion A mountain stream feeding an ocean Politicians go through the motions Displaying such depth of devotion Logic verses emotion Seems to be a lot of confusion There is no forgone conclusion There is no simple solution The answer lies in your emotions The answer lies in your emotions Let them speak to you

Secret Garden So much time and so little to do I furnish my mind with pictures of you Fading portraits, peculiar names Replaced by your face in a big golden frame Take me inside you There I will find you Quietly sleeping Water is seeping Down from the skies and Into your eyes and Into the secret garden The icon hangs alone on the wall Her sweet mouth is saying nothing at all Golden fragments of moments in time Tarnished with guilt for an innocent crime Take me inside you There I will find you Quietly sleeping Water is seeping Down from the skies and Into your eyes and Into the secret Your beautiful secret Take me inside you There I will find you Quietly sleeping Water is seeping Down from the skies and Into your eyes and Into the secret garden