Name: Lord Henry Steps Out (live with NJC)
Duration: P00H02M19S
Description: Like a Lovecraftian horror tale liberally seasoned with more than a twinge of Oscar Wilde's "Dorian Gray" sexuality, Xerxes Pretorious Hoarde has taken to paper and created a most magnificent musical dissertation focusing on "Victorian Morals".

Lord Henry Steps Out (live with NJC)

from Totally Unexpected - Part Deux by .LMJ3-NJC

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Like a Lovecraftian horror tale liberally seasoned with more than a twinge of Oscar Wilde's "Dorian Gray" sexuality, Xerxes Pretorious Hoarde has taken to paper and created a most magnificent musical dissertation focusing on "Victorian Morals".

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LORD HENRY STEPS OUT

It's sad to think but there's no doubt that genius lasts in beauty
And that accounts for the fact that we will take great pains
To over-educate ourselves in a struggle for existence.

We want something that endures and so we fill our minds
With rubbish and facts in a silly hope of keeping our place.

But the mind of a thoroughly well informed man
Can be such a dreadful thing. A dreadful thing for sure.

The bravest man amongst us is most afraid of himself.
It is tragic survival in self denial that mars our very lives.
Every impulse we attempt to strangle broods within our minds.
The body sins to purify, then nothing else remains but the
Recollection of a pleasure or the luxury of regret.

The only way to rid yourself of temptation
Is to GIVE IN..GIVE IN TO YOUR DESIRES.

So YIELD to temptation lest your soul grow sick and weak
With the longing for the things it has been forbidden for so long.
Desire for what is monstrous that laws have made unlawful
With thoughts that fill you with terror and stain your cheeks with shame.

(music/lyrics © Xerxes Praetorius Horde/New Jacobin Club: all rights reserved)

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from Totally Unexpected - Part Deux, released November 27, 2017
Music/lyrics © Xerxes Praetorius Horde/New Jacobin Club - all rights reserved. Vocal performance - Lord Monty Jacques III (LMJ3)/Steampunkfunk Bizarre

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International purveyor of Victorian Funk, Rap and assorted lyrical conundrums, Monty mixes Victorian subject matter with danceable funk backbeat. He has created an entirely new Steampunk sound that offers a delicious confection of funk, soul and just plain fun! American based, Steampunk Chronicles' "Person to Watch/2013" has toured the UK, DE, Holland, Luxemburg, NZ with lots more to come! ... more

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