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Give Me Your Future

Tom Kalin

1999 00:07:00 United StatesEnglishColorStereo
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Turn the lights down / Way down low / Turn up the music / Hi as fi can go / All the gang's here / Everyone you know / It's a crazy scene / Hey there, just look over your shoulder / Hoo hoo / Get the picture? / No no no no / Yeah / Walk a tight rope / Your life-sign line / Such a bright hope / Right place, right time / What's your number? / Never you mind / Take a powder / But hang on a minute, what's coming round the corner? Wooooo woo woo / Have you a future? / No no no no / Yeah

Well, I've been up all night again / Party-time wasting is too much fun / Then I step back thinking / Of life's inner meaning / And my latest fling / It's the same old story / All love and glory / It's a pantomime / If you're looking for love /In a looking glass world /It's pretty hard to find / Oh, mother of pearl / I wouldn't trade you / For another girl / Divine intervention / Always my intention / So I take my time / I've been looking for something / I always wanted / But was never mine / But now I've seen that something / Just out of reach glowing / Very Holy Grail / Oh, mother of pearl / Lustrous lady of a sacred world / Thus even Zarathustra / Another time loser / Could believe in you / With every goddess a let down / Every idol a bring down / It gets you down / But the search for perfection / Your own predilection / Goes on and on and on and on / Canadian Club love / A place in the country / Everyone's ideal / But you are my favorite / And a place in your heart dear / Makes me feel more real / Oh, mother of pearl / I wouldn't change you / For the whole world / You're highbrow holy / With lots of soul / Melancholy shimmering Serpentine sleekness / Was always my weakness / Like a simple tune / But no dilettante / Filigree fancy / Beats the plastic you / Career girl cover / Exposed and another / Slips right into view / Oh, looking for love / In a looking glass world / Is pretty hard for you / Few throwaway kisses / The boomerang misses / Spins round and round / Fall on featherbed quilted / Faced with silk / Softly stuffed eider down / Take refuge in pleasure / Just give me your future / We'll forget your past

Oh, mother of pearl / Submarine lover in a shrinking world / Oh, lonely dreamer / Your choke-up provokes a picture cameo/ Oh, mother of pearl / So so semi-precious in your detached world

Oh mother of pearl / I wouldn't trade you / For another girl Oh mother of pearl / I wouldn't trade you / For another girl Oh mother of pearl / I wouldn't trade you / For another girl Oh mother of pearl / I wouldn't trade you / For another girl Oh mother of pearl / I wouldn't trade you / For another girl Oh mother of pearl / I wouldn't trade you / For another girl Oh mother of pearl / I wouldn't trade you / For another girl

—Roxy Music, "Mother of Pearl"

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About Tom Kalin

Tom Kalin’s work focuses on the portrayal of gay sexuality both in the age of AIDS and historically, as in his acclaimed New Queer Cinema feature Swoon (1992). Informed by his work with two AIDS activist collectives, ACT UP and Gran Fury, Kalin’s video work is characterized by beautifully murky appropriated images and vibrant original portraits and performances. Kalin co-produced the feature films Go Fish (Rose Troché, 1994) and I Shot Andy Warhol (Mary Harron, 1996) and is on the film faculty at Columbia University.