The Pursewarden Affair by Anaïs Mitchell
The Pursewarden Affair by Anaïs Mitchell

The Pursewarden Affair

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The Pursewarden Affair by Anaïs Mitchell

Release Date
Mon Oct 06 2014
Performed by
Anaïs Mitchell
Produced by
Anaïs Mitchell & Gary Paczosa
About

Percy Pursewarden is a character from Lawerence Durrell’s famous tetralogy, The Alexandria Quartet. Pursewarden, a darkly humorous writer and artist working at the British Foreign Office in Alexandria, is known in the novels for his distaste of Anglo-Saxon life, his iconoclasm, his incestuous love a...

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The Pursewarden Affair Lyrics

Percy Pursewarden
Open up your door
I haven't come to break your cadence
Or mix your metaphor
And if I swore I was no critic
Would you let me come inside?
Where you write your famous lines
And you lay your secret plans
For suicide by sleight of hand

And you let me down so kindly
You don't love me
But you don't mind me

Percy Pursewarden
After all your hard traveling
Think a girl could lie down beside you
Without your world unraveling?
In a maudlin mess
Yes, that's my clothing in a pile
Just wanna stay a little while
Just wanna see that crooked grin
After the sedatives set in, hey

And then we're feeling fine
You don't love me
Well, I don't mind

Percy Pursewarden
I'll be gone before you wake
Back to the gallery of failures
To see what I can make of you
Pursewarden
Have mercy on my heart
Maybe I don't want to call it art
Just because you nailed it to the wall
Maybe I'm a critic after all

And you don't have to remind me
You don't love me
But you don't mind me

The Pursewarden Affair Q&A

Who wrote The Pursewarden Affair's ?

The Pursewarden Affair was written by Anaïs Mitchell.

Who produced The Pursewarden Affair's ?

The Pursewarden Affair was produced by Anaïs Mitchell & Gary Paczosa.

When did Anaïs Mitchell release The Pursewarden Affair?

Anaïs Mitchell released The Pursewarden Affair on Mon Oct 06 2014.

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