tenderness & frailty

Bilderstrecke aus dem winterlichen Taunus, Januar 2021

He was always alone
Told me he liked it best that way
Just a victim of circumstance
Just a loser who’d lost his chance
Truth, love and lies
They were all and the same to him
But he’d never given in
To the ultimate sin

And now you wonder why
I put out the flame in my eyes
I’ll hold on to my mystery
Secrets that make up me
In what’s real and fantasy

Tenderness is a weakness
It tears down your fortresses
Makes you easy access (and I guess that)
Tenderness is a weakness
It makes you so vulnerable
To that sick dangerous feeling
We all know as love

tenderness is a weakness, Marc Almond and the willing sinners, vermin in ermine, 1984

„Vermin in Ermine“ – schon allein der Titel – eine meiner absoluten Lieblingsplatten! Welch süßer Schmalz! Es hört sich an wie „Aristocats“ für Disney Hasser! Mir ging damals mein Herz auf.