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Golden Sun
Marc Almond
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A jewelled pet tortoise is my hybrid
Its shell, tooled by a jeweller, walks on my carpet
A floral design, like a Japanese curio
It seemed like a gold sun that sparkled on snow
Rubies, emeralds and sapphires, cold fires on its back
On my oriental rug, a solitary attack
It was cruel and I knew it, unnatural as me
To place jewels on my tortoise from sheer vanity
I had a gold sun indoors
With Ceylon cat's eyes
And a sultan's plum rubies
And dancing sapphires
I had a gold sun indoors
Watching it die
All of it vanity
All of it vanity
All of it lies
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Ruby blues and deep greens, the stones cut by his art
This jeweller who's purple like a broken heart
I watched how the windows turned to ice flowers on fire
Like a vaporous rainbow, my frozen desire
It lay still for an hour, my gold tortoise lay dead
Pushed into a corner with retracted head
Something died in me too, the weird need to subject
A natural born creature to refined intellect
I had a gold sun indoors
With Ceylon cat's eyes
And a sultan's plum rubies
And dancing sapphires
I had a gold sun indoors
Watching it die
All of it vanity
All of it vanity
All of it lies
All of it vanity
All of it vanity
All of it lies
All of it vanity
All of it vanity
All of it lies
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