Unity Mitford - The Indelicates

Arm in arm on the boulevard

Speaking the language that only we know

I’ll brush an eyelash from your cheek

I know they’ll write books about you

And oh!

the crowds and the joyful faces

These people are just backdrop to us

You and I don’t even think like they do

You and I we’re like a different species

Like Romeo and Juliet

In a bunker, shot through the head

Everything will be beautiful

Everything will be beautiful

Affairs of state and of the heart

I love it when you speak so passionately

We understand how music works

You understand what you mean to me

And oh!

the indescribable beauty

Of a million hands raised to salute you

Like poppies lean when winds caress them

Cut flowers pressed to solemn duty

Like Romeo and Juliet

In a bunker, shot through the head

Everything will be beautiful

Everything will be beautiful

This epoch, this century

These people and this infamy

Where once there was a single summer

That never seemed to turn