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Camera Obscura – Other Towns and Cities Lyrics 16 years ago
I think it's a shame that this song doesn't fit perfectly on the album because lyrically it's one of the strongest. In particular I like:

These words are weak and to your dislike
You'll never believe them so I guess it's alright

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Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career Lyrics 16 years ago
I think it's a pun on that. Maudlin is basically a synonym for miserable, downbeat, weak, sentimental. I also think it's Traceyanne poking fun at herself, as Morrissey does in his track 'Late Night, Maudlin Street'.

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Camera Obscura – Away with Murder Lyrics 16 years ago
Is this song the sequel to Eighties Fan?

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Camera Obscura – Swans Lyrics 16 years ago
My probably quite idiosyncratic idea of what the first two verses might be:

There's flowers in my house
And I bought them myself
No surprises in the record collection
You must have thought I was someone else

I'm still afraid to get lost
In a city I might explore
But I'm not afraid to have
an Eloquent boy at my door
at my door
at my door
at my door

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Camera Obscura – French Navy Lyrics 16 years ago
Think the lyrics are more like this:

Spent a week in a dusty library
Waiting for some words to jump at me
We met by a trick of fate
French navy, my sailor mate

We met by the moon on a silvery lake
You came my way
Said, "I want you to stay"

You with your dietary restriction
Said you loved me with a lot of conviction
I was waiting to be struck by lightning
Waiting for somebody exciting

Like you
Oh, the thing that you do
You make me go, "Oooh"
With the things that you do, you do, you do

I wanted to control it
But love, I couldn't hold it
I wanted to control it
But love, I couldn't hold it

I'll be criticized for lending out my eye (?)
I was criticized for letting you break my heart
Why would a ___(?) disappoint unless
Fooling all but I'm on tenderhooks, ooh with the looks

On tenderhooks,
Ooh, with the looks, the looks, the looks

I wanted to control it
But love, I couldn't hold it
I wanted to control it
But love, I couldn't hold it

Relationships were something I used to do
Convince me they are better for me and you
We met by a trick of fate
French navy, my sailor-

I wanted to control it
But love, I couldn't hold it
I wanted to control it
But love, I couldn't hold it

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Still a couple of Glaswegian-twanged bits I couldn't decipher!

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