Abandoned Flesh

Abandoned Flesh
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Album	Goths
Released	May 19, 2017
Length	3:42
Previous Track	"For the Portuguese Goth Metal Bands"

Abandoned Flesh is the twelfth song on the album Goths. It appears as the twelfth song on the 2022 live album The Jordan Lake Sessions: Volume 5.

Lyrics[]

Robert Smith is secure at his villa in France
Any child knows how to do the spiderweb dance
Siouxsie has enough hits to keep the bills paid
Every New Year's in Los Angeles, you can still see Richard Blade

But the world forgot about Gene Loves Jezebel
Yes the world forgot about Gene Loves Jezebel 

They charted once or twice
They were on a major label
When the singer went solo
He left money on the table
The two main guys are related
They're at war with each other
Now there's two Genes loving Jezebel
One for each brother

But the world came to agree
What you see is what you get and what you get is what you see
Whether you're The March Violets or The Bolshoi
Bands who had to leave the darkness for the sun
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry were on Cherry Red I think
They've been playing clubs since 1981
To be fair to Gene Loves Jezebel
Billy Corgan brought them onstage
It was in 2011
It's on their Wikipedia page
But for the most part
However big that chorused bass may throb
You and me and all of us
Are going to have to find a job

Because the world will never know or understand
The suffocated splendor
Of the once and future goth band

Comments by John Darnielle About this Song[]

"This is a song about a band that tried." -- 2017-05-25 - Saturn - Birmingham, AL
"The point of this song where one famous guy does a solid for a formerly famous guy –– which is sort of your classic Mountain Goats scenario –– happened in this town actually, I'm very excited. I'm very excited to play this one here." –– 2022-11-16 - Roundhouse - London, England

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Goths

Track list: "Rain in Soho" • "Andrew Eldritch Is Moving Back to Leeds" • "The Grey King and the Silver Flame Attunement" • "We Do It Different on the West Coast" • "Unicorn Tolerance" • "Stench of the Unburied" • "Wear Black" • "Paid in Cocaine" • "Rage of Travers" • "Shelved" • "For the Portuguese Goth Metal Bands" • "Abandoned Flesh"
Bonus tracks: "For the West Coast Dark Ambient Bedroom Warriors" • "Scaling the Well" • "Vanishing Act" • "Grave Dust"

The Jordan Lake Sessions: Volume 5

Track list: "Let Me Bathe in Demonic Light" • "First Blood" • "Mark On You" • "Minnesota" • "Make You Suffer" • "Choked Out" • "Tidal Wave" • "Torch Song" • "Tulsa Imperative" • "The Water Song" • "The Window Song" • "Abandoned Flesh" • "We Do It Different on the West Coast" • "Guys on Every Corner" • "Training Montage" • "Extraction Point" • "Damn These Vampires" • "Wage Wars Get Rich Die Handsome" • "Bleed Out"

Abandoned Flesh

Contents

Lyrics[]

Comments by John Darnielle About this Song[]

Things Referenced in this Song[]

Live Shows this Song Was Played at[]

Videos of this Song[]

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Abandoned Flesh

Album	Goths
Released	May 19, 2017
Length	3:42
Previous Track	"For the Portuguese Goth Metal Bands"