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A Hungarian Malady

from Dybbuk by Buffo's Wake

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A song about a song - Gloomy Sunday by Rezso Seress - that caused a suicide-epidemic in 1930's Budapest.

Part inspired by another song about this song, by The Self Help Group - Smile Club. (www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYFOg5P-0AY)

lyrics

A Hungarian Malady
Rezso Seress is it really that bad?
you didn’t count those lucky stars you wished upon and now they’ve made an ugly mess
It’s true, its true the bodies in the Danube weren’t to be the last
Accused, are you? in the midst of all your deadly success
But I confess

I’m confused and amused by the crumpled note that Joseph Keller left
And in a river of Vienna, a maiden with your hymn etched deep in to her breast
And you who flew out of an apartment window up in Budapest
Who knew a tune that delicate could have such a cruel effect
And still they play

Passions for sweet success led to infatuations far less savoury
The love you yearned to impress in a fit of pure distress and misery and small touch of insanity
drank, she drank till the venom married the blood in her body
If you thought Sunday was blue, wait till Monday comes at you with a new grey and gloomy agony

Reszo, Reszo, how many fools have fallen foul to your melody
A curse, well-rehearsed, crafted one handed on branded ivories
A noose a, a noose made from the heartstrings burdened with dull harmonies
Sung gently to the soul, as a bird in a cage whistling to be released And still they sing

Are your hours still slumberless?
And are your shadows still numberless?
Did the candles and the prayers weep gravely for your soul?
Did your heart depart on the black coach of sorrow?

Rezso Seress the waiter is never bringing you your bill
flaunting that fatal flame whilst parading all the pain that kept you ill
I guess you loved to get drunk till you stunk up the Kispipa until
Your world was truly ending, as a legends crescendoing through the hills, hungry for the kill

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from Dybbuk, released December 8, 2019

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Buffo's Wake are a Brighton based, gypsy punk band of lunatics with a taste for the macabre. Festival veterans, regularly appearing at some of the UK's biggest festivals, including Glastonbury, Bestival, Secret Garden Party, and Boomtown, as well as live performances on BBC Introducing, Buffo's Wake will grab you, and leave you dancing like a person possessed. Guaranteed to raise hell! ... more

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