Dandy In The Underworld Lyrics

Dandy In The Underworld lyrics

Marc Bolan- guitar and vocal

 Herbie Flowers- bass

 Tony Newman- drums

 Dino Dines-keyboards and synthesizer

 Steve Harley- vocals

 

 A Bolanic revision of Orpheus Descending

 

 Prince of Players, Pawn of none

 Born with steel reins on the heart of the Sun

 Gypsy explorer of the New Jersey Heights

 Exalted companion of cocaine nights **

 

 'Cos he's a Dandy in the Underworld

 Dandy in the Underworld

 When will he come up for air,

 Will anybody ever care *

 

 At an old eighteen exiled he was

 To the deserted kingdoms of a mythical Oz

 Distraction he wanted, to destruction he fell

 Now he forever stalks the ancient

 Mansions of hell

 

 * Repeat

 

 Now his lovers have left him

 And his youth's ill spent

 He cries in the dungeons and tries to repent

 But change is a monster and changing is hard

 But he'll freeze away his summers in his

 Underground yard

 

 * Repeat

 ** Repeat

 Repeat twice