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Pure Selfishness

from 20 Frisky Whiskies by Momus

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A re-recorded version of a song written in 1993 for the album Shyness by The Poison Girlfriend.

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Why do we do what we do in the dark
Why do the cows go moo and the dogs all bark
Why did the beasts go two by two into the ark
Why do we walk with no conscious intention
So frequently here in the park?

Pure selfishness

Why do I sing what I sing in this song
Why do the flowers grow weak and the weeds grow strong
Why did Faye Wray love the hideous monster King Kong
Why do we suffer and smother each other
The answer's been clear all along

Pure selfishness

I used to wonder what makes the world go round
I no longer wonder what makes the world go round
Selfishness is all we need
What turns the world is greed
For love
For love

Why do we do what we do in the dark?
For love

Be like the animals, be like the birds and the bees
Be like the blossom that falls to the grass from the trees
Push your excitement on up to its selfish release
The whole of the law will be Aleister Crowley's "do what you please"

Pure selfishness
Pure selfishness

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from 20 Frisky Whiskies, released January 5, 2024
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Momus is "the David Bowie of the art-pop underground" (The Guardian). "Behind all the scoffing defiance there wafts something dark, too" (Die Tageszeitung). "There's a tone all the way through his work of a slightly aloof and superior being smiling cruelly at the foibles of human nature" (Stuart Maconie, BBC Radio). ... more

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