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Idiots & 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
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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I love this song, but it scares the fucking shit out of me. Shudder.
Mad Lucas was a Victorian hermit. http://richard-whitmore.info/mad-lucas.htm
I think Mad Lucas is a mentally ill homeless man. What a disturbing song. Great, though.
such a chill song... wavy. I just love her voice so much.
This song makes me really mellow, but kind of depressed. Are these lyrics accurate? I'm not sure. I wish I knew the meaning.
http://www.hermitofredcoats.co.uk/the_hermit.html
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
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.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lucas_(hermit)\n\nFor our edification. But how did Kim Deal stumble upon this in 1993?? Obscure English hermit?