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He was born the same time as me
To a small souled woman who died 23

Now you're here, they can't shove you back
I know you live your life out of spite
I'm waiting for Jude the obscene
I'm waiting for Jude the obscene
(I'm waiting, I'm waiting, I'm waiting, I'm waiting, I'm)

The good ones first so get back in the queue
(so get back in the queue)
You trawled your way through our grim school
(you trawled your way through our grim school)

I hear your crowing in my sleep, in my dreams
A great dark wave shivers over me
I'm waiting for Jude the obscene
Waiting for Jude the obscene
(I'm waiting, I'm waiting, I'm waiting, I'm waiting, I'm)

Boys with bashed-in eyes line the roads
(boys with bashed-in eyes line the roads)
But the longest walk was the walk back home
(the longest walk was the walk back home)
Alone

Now you're here, they can't shove you back
You go on living your life out of spite
And I'm waiting for Jude the obscene
I'm waiting for Jude the obscene
(I'm waiting, I'm waiting, I'm waiting, I'm waiting, I'm)
I'm waiting for Jude the obscene
Waiting for Jude the obscene
Waiting for Jude the obscene

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one Hit Wonder On May 12, 2002

He was born the same time as me
To a small souled woman who died 23

The good ones first so get back in the queue 
(so get back in the queue)
You trawled your way through our grim school 
(you trawled your way through our grim school)

I hear your crowing in my sleep, in my dreams
A great dark wave shivers over me
I'm waiting for Jude the obscene
Waiting for Jude the obscene
(I'm waiting, I'm waiting, I'm waiting, I'm waiting, I'm)

Boys with bashed-in eyes line the roads 
(boys with bashed-in eyes line the roads)
But the longest walk was the walk back home 
(the longest walk was the walk back home) 
Alone

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2002-05-12 09:58:44

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by Al_radio

18y ago

It is about Andy being bullied at school. However, I remember reading an interview saying he was now having the last laugh. All the people at school who bullied him were now accountants while he was snorting cocaine out of supermodel's belly buttons!

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by demiurg

7y ago

I ran into this comment about how "Jude the Obscure" may have morphed into "Jude the Obscene":

When Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure appeared in 1895, it immediately caused scandal and controversy. Its frank treatment of Jude’s sexual relationships with Arabella and Sue, its scathing criticisms of late-Victorian hypocrisy, its depiction of the “New Woman,” and its attacks on “holy wedlock” and religious bigotry outraged numerous reviewers; one called the book “Jude the Obscene.” Others saw it as brilliantly progressive in its ideas and techniques. Vivid and complex, satiric and harrowing, this novel marked the culmination of Hardy’s development as a leading novelist of the cultural transition from the Victorian to the Modernist era. (https://broadviewpress.com/product/jude-the-obscure/?ph=520e08a63daa08ffebfa06f6#tab-description)

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