Momus - The New Decameron lyrics

In a time of plague we were young and gay
And while money reigned
Minorities were wiped out every day
But we had tailors, we were getting famous

With the patronage of William Burroughs
And also Kathy Acker
Our pens would save the day

Singing 'tirra lirra tirra lirra tirra
Lirra gabba gabba hey'

And our heroes were nightclub entrepreneurs
Our novellas were
Metaphors and deconstructions architects
Who blow up their own buildings

While Reagan and Thatcher reigned
We got famous not all of us survived
As happens in time of plague

Singing 'tirra lirra tirra lirra tirra
Lirra gabba gabba hey'

In a gilded time when death was king
A group of authors began to
Write a new Decameron
Whose elegance bordered on the Florentine

And when the 90s came
We were immune to plague
To every known strain
Then along came Kurt Cobain