20th Century Blues cover

Want To Buy Some Illusions Paroles

Marianne Faithfull

Album 20th Century Blues

Paroles de Want To Buy Some Illusions

Want to buy some illusions
Slightly used, second-hand?
They were lovely illusions,
Reaching high, built on sand.
They had a touch of paradise,
A spell you can't explain,
For in this crazy paradise
You are in love with pain.

Want to buy some illusions
Slightly used, just like new?
Such romantic illusions,
And they're all about you.
Too bad they all fell apart
Like dreams often do.
They were lovely illusions,
But they just wouldn't come true.

Slightly used, just like new,
Such romantic illusions
And they're all about you.
I'd sell them all for a penny,
They make pretty souvenirs.
Take my lovely illusions,

Some for laughs, some for tears. And I love this translation, I think it's so exceptional.
In this Jenny who is a prostitute and a waitress in a, in a, in a shitty hotel, er, obviously on the docks, and, and macheath is her pimp,
Is imagining, is having a fantasy of what she would do to those who oppress her if she could