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Teenage Sweethearts

from Neronia by Ulysses

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Now the stage is set for Neronia, the female protagonist of the song and also the album's namesake.

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TEENAGE SWEETHEARTS

Teenage Sweethearts
is it your whims that control you
childish desires for sparkle and flash
to satisfy your peers and compensate your-
selves
in body and mind
You there - crying in utter despair
of weeping acne and cursed fat ankles

A teenager’s lot is not a happy one
but you look to find relief
you play your games yes you play in pain
your fiendish games, no thought for the hearts
of the slain

You grasp at perfection
beautiful faces, beautiful bodies,
beautiful people
Oh, pretentious princess, you laughed
in your riddle
while you watched me burn
and still came back to turn the spit
and fan the miserizing flame
Cruel Ceasaria, my Neronia in wicked kind
what leadened cup kissed your lips

what fickled fancies tickled your brain
what sullen pleasure did you find in my pain
as I looked up your thumb was down
what defections can do to a teenager’s mind.

No answers that I can find
you had no hope of finding such a paradise
such places you should have known
only exist in the novice mind

you always demanded the next best thing
and mummy always came through with the
diamond ring,
and all you really needed, and all those
other things

but not this time, this time is mine
and sweety-pie you’re going to find
that I’ve planned my sting, I’ve covered
everything
so daddy’s little princess
you can crown your new king.

So I fell from heaven yes I fell from grace
tried to take what I deserved and I lost
my place
but now revenge is mine
and the taste of it’s sweet
and I’m going to make you suffer
you’ll burn in your defeat

Little angel your wings are mine
I’m the bearer of your light
yes I’m your morning star
save your sympathies for yourself
cause I’m you lord Lucifer
and I’m going to rip the wings
I’m going to rip the wings off this butterfly

You can’t fly away, you’ll never fly away
but I’ll throw you away, when I’m finished
with you.

What now? I’m here all alone, so cold.
I jumped upon a dreamboat
my childish exploits, my fantasies all abord.

Look at me, sweet sixteen, my crying heart
you leave me, I hate to cry on my own
my childish exploits, my dreams
are crashing down on the shore

I admit in the beginning I couldn’t get over you
now I see the light
something’s rising through me.

A teenager’s lot is not a happy one
but you look to find relief
you play your games, yes you play in pain
your fiendish games
no thoughts for the hearts

what fickled fancy tickled your brain
what sullen pleasure did you find in my pain
as I looked up your thumb was down
what defections can do to the teenager’s mind

none such
and so much for the teenage sweethearts.

credits

from Neronia, released November 10, 1993
Special guests: Tracy Hitchings & Cliff Orsi

Music written and arranged by Ulysses
Lyrics by Gerard Hynes

Gerard Hynes - Vocals
Tracy Hitchings - Vocals
Mirko Rudnik - Guitars, Bass pedals
Thomas Diehl - Keyboards
Cliff Orsi - Bass
Robert Zoom - Drums

Produced and engineered by Clive Nolan & Karl Groom
Additional engineering by Steve Rispin
Recorded at Thin Ice Studios, London, England. January and April 1993

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Ulysses Germany

Progressive rock music project by the founding members of German prog rockers Ulysses.
Their debut album Neronia, produced by Karl Groom (Threshold) and Clive Nolan (Arena), and the subsequent European tour with Pendragon propelled them immediately into the premier league of European prog rock bands.
Freshly reunited, they are ready to resurrect the great legacy they left behind.
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