Righthand Heart - Momus

I meet this girl with a righthand heart

I notice nothing until we start to kiss

And my hand goes beneath her dress

To the lefthand breast

Downstairs the party’s going full swing

The people we came with haven’t noticed a thing

As I tease the teat with my teeth

I feel nothing underneath

She puts my ear across her chest

Rests my head against the righthand breast

Sure enough her heart is there

Loud and clear

Beat, beating, beating on The right side of oblivion

Beat, beating, beating on The wrong side of her body

And though I know there’s nothing dangerous in it

I’m feeling queasy, getting worse by the minute

Wondering how to escape this nightmare

When up the stair

Comes this boy with no heart at all

Him and her they make the perfect couple

Him so blind in his rapacity

That he doesn’t even see it Beat, beating, beating on The right side of oblivion

Beat, beating, beating on The wrong side of her body

And as I contemplate this mating of rapacity and

Sickness

Of which I am the fascinated, unwilling witness

I see he couldn’t care where her heart might be And I say «what the hell is wrong with me?

Am I just too pure and too proud?"

And as the bed creaks I ask myself aloud

«Could it be that what makes me a freak Is my contempt

For freaks?»

I start to sweat, I feel it approach

Familiar self-hate, familiar self-reproach

And under my guard again it beats so hard

My righthand heart

Beat, beating, beating on The right side of oblivion

Beat, beating, beating on The wrong side of my body

Beat, beating, beating on The right side of oblivion

Beat, beating, beating on