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Jimmy & Marilyn

from Other People's Angels by Voice Of The Rain

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From the first time I saw East of Eden
I was hooked on Jimmy Dean.
Gun crossed, little boy lost,
Burning up right there on the screen.
With a face full of forebodings
that didn’t augur well,
the first tortured adolescent
to crawl out of it’s shell
and he gave the world the idea
of a life inbetween boy and man
but he left just before he arrived
and I can understand.
Car crash on an Autumn highway –
Jimmy died but the image lives on
though the person’s gone, the myth is alive.

Long before I got addicted
the world was hooked on Marilyn Monroe,
whose life became blurred
and transformed into Hollywood showtime.
Arthur Miller, Joe DiMaggio, JFK and Bobby too
tried to catch her falling star
and got burned in their pursuit
because her sky was full of treasure
and no-one had given them the key.
Still most men dream of saving her:
The girl who invented sex appeal.
Bottle of pills on a bedside table –
She died but the image lives on
though the person’s gone, the myth is alive.

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from Other People's Angels, released February 17, 2014
Words & Music By Robert Boole & Richard Knowles

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Faute de Mieux

1980s, 1990s, 2015.

Mainly of an acoustic bent but known to wind up the distortion on occasion.

The further adventures of one half of the duo are linked to below. ... more

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