Idiots and palsied
Blink in corners we leave

Know you like to be seen
Moral insanities

Arise, wash your face
From cinder and soot
You're a nuisance
And I Don't like Dirt

Tale of cities
Hermit of Redcoat's green

Hermit of Redcoat's green
Open Sesame

Eternal Providence
Open Sesame


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Mad Lucas Lyrics as written by Kim Deal

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    I love this song, but it scares the fucking shit out of me. Shudder.

    YoungxForxEternityon February 22, 2006   Link
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    Mad Lucas was a Victorian hermit. richard-whitmore.info/mad-lucas.htm

    flapperjackeron March 22, 2012   Link
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    I think Mad Lucas is a mentally ill homeless man. What a disturbing song. Great, though.

    Crane42on May 02, 2013   Link
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    such a chill song... wavy. I just love her voice so much.

    Willboeon November 14, 2009   Link
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    This song makes me really mellow, but kind of depressed. Are these lyrics accurate? I'm not sure. I wish I knew the meaning.

    Fionnon June 15, 2010   Link
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    eating_for_youon September 12, 2010   Link
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    My French A-level teacher was called Mr Lucas- and he was mad as a balloon. I used to listen to this track in the sixth form social area- it always made perfect sense to me

    nickdixey1on April 09, 2022   Link
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    And as I write in the Cayman Islands, I discover from Wikipedia on my phone during my taxi journey home at 1am (which did not exist in 1995) that Mad Lucas was a hermit from Hertfordshire in England- there apparently is a pub in my Dad’s hometown of Hitchen called “Hermit of Redcoats”. Christ. Small world.

    nickdixey1on April 09, 2022   Link
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    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JamesLucas(hermit)\n\nFor our edification. But how did Kim Deal stumble upon this in 1993?? Obscure English hermit?

    nickdixey1on April 09, 2022   Link

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