foto by olivier viret/switzerland
"the breath of scandal" [doug duffey]
it seems i've smoked a thousand cigarettes/sitting in the dark with wine and regrets/haunting memory will not let me forget/ the breath of scandal on your smile.
which like expensive luxury/holds attraction for someone like me/i'm a connoisseur of lurid pageantry/and i sense it 'neath your style.
you're never too young or too old for an indiscretion/special predicaments are not impositions/only one thing is important, in this brief and damned exisitence/survival, will you survive with me?
for we'll live 'devil may care'/what concerns to us are others affairs?/social suicide may meet us somewhere/but can you dare to let go?
you're never too young or too old for an indiscretion/special predicaments are not impositions/only one thing is important, in this brief and damned exisitence/survival, will you survive with me?
it seems i've smoked a thousand cigarettes, sitting in the dark with wine and regrets/ haunting memory will not let me forget/ the breath of scandal on your smile.
[c][p]1975-2006 doug duffey music, bmi
written in Hollywood, California/circa 1970s/this song appeared on my solo cd "living the blues" - released in europe only- by DTM/EMI [out of print]. my solo work tends to be more dark and brooding [it's something about those minor piano chords that i love] -and tends to verge on the dramatic and theatrical.
i'm compiling a 'new' recycled cd from my solo sessions [recorded in monroe & new orleans, louisiana in the 80s and 90s]. there's a lot of stuff from those sessions that needs to be "out there"...
[c]2006 doug duffey
