The Slamheads - Feeling Saturnine Lyrics

I try to read a new book every week
A course of learning that is quite oblique
Lately I've been feeling saturnine
I repine
My favorite authors open me to feel
Empathy for those whose pain is real

Hemingway and Hardy
Dumas, Camus, and Weisel
Dante, Shakespeare, and Kafka
Steinbeck and Dostoyevsky
Conrad, Chekhov, and du Maurier
Goethe, Bronte, and Balzac
Forster, Flaubert, and Dickens
All raconteurs of transience

I revel in the music that I hear
Sometimes it's dark and gloomy and austere
And it feels right when I'm saturnine
And repine
The pieces open me up and I feel
Empathy for those whose pain is real

Dead Can Dance and Bauhaus
Orff, Grieg, Maazel, and Verdi
Echo, The Smiths, and Xymox
Kate Bush and Joy Division
Siouxsie, The Cure, and Depeche Mode
Brahms, Mahler, Bax, The Stranglers
Pixies, The Clash, and Kraftwerk
All raconteurs of transience