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The Gas (Le Gas)

from Collecting Brel - Vol. 2 by Collecting Brel

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You live on Madonna Street
In a house that sways around
In a house that's wrinkled but it's sweet
Where the floorboards lay on solid ground
The spiral stairs are rather neat
It's not big but it has class
You live on Madonna Street
And me, I've come to read the gas

Your boudoir is full of buddhas
The candles dance in the candelabra
It smells good, there's no drama
The air it streams with taffeta
The room's filled up with photographs
Of you and your friends just having a laugh
You've got a boudoir full of buddhas
And I've only come to read the gas

You've got the divan of a king
A divan fit for a diva
A dresser that's piled up with rings
And bottles of expensive liquor
You've got a small dog and a big cat
Your record player's playing jazz
You've got the divan of a diva,
And I've come to read the gas

You have tits, tits like suns
Tits like fruit, tits like sugar
You've got tits just like melons,
Tits like fruit, like a trigger
You cover them up and it gets dark
But when I see them I feel like pegasus
You've got tits, just like suns
And me I've come to read the gas

In the waiting room, there's the plumber
Whose grinding up the coffee beans,
There's the waiter and a horny vicar,
A mailman wearing torn-up jeans
The mayor's pouring cheap vodka
Into the old, crippled soldier
There's the cops, and the hand of my sister
And they've all come to read the gas

So everyone come to Madonna Street,
Forget about the Sunday Mass
Come on down to Madonna Street
And say that you've come
To read the gas...

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from Collecting Brel - Vol. 2, released March 1, 2019

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