Larger Than Life
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Lyrics
Uncle Morty used to send me to the movies "Here's a nickel, kid, cheer up and go" And though I was only seven I discovered heaven At the R.K.O. Blue lights, pink lights Stars in the ceiling An organ as big as a Buick And a screen as tall as the Great Wall of China Red rugs, gold stairs Porcelain angels And everything bigger, and better And larger than life! At first I was strictly a Western man But then, one Saturday afternoon I saw "Defender of the Crown" Warner Brothers, 1941, Technicolor Starring Alan Swann Daring, loyal Kind but courageous A hero as big as a Buick With a cape, a sword, and a bevy of maidens He was movies Me, I was seven And gee, he was bigger, and better And larger than life! See, life wasn't capes, and flashing swords And parapets Life wasn't Alan Swann or Robin Hood Life was your father going out for cigarettes And deciding he was going out for good "Here's a nickel, kid" "Cheer up and go" Swann is playing at the R.K.O. "With the morning sun at our backs, we will this day Write history, with our swords and our honor Now, let us not dally For I have this day An engagement to mount the crown of England" This sort of talk just doesn't come up in normal conversation ♪ Sure, it was possible! If he met my mom in '34 Maybe had a fling with her in his cabana at the Chateau Marmont Well, there was every reason to believe There could be the remote possibility that the man who went out for the Chesterfields Wasn't my real father at all I wasn't some stupid kid whose father got tired of him and walked out I was the bastard son of Alan Swann! Daring, loyal Kind but courageous A hero as big as I needed In the Technicolor embrace of a maiden Swann, my hero And possible father He stood, and he fought, and he never ran Oh no He was bigger, and better, and larger than life And he lived for me At the R.K.O.
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Song Details
- Duration
- 04:50
- Key
- 3
- Tempo
- 135 BPM