Name: What Purpose Does It Serve?
Duration: P00H07M31S
Description: The music for this song was inspired by the great San Francisco band *Waycross*. Waycross had a beautiful and powerful song that was one chord throughout. I tried to match that, but I couldn’t get by with less than 4 chords. Victor and Jonathan pulled through for us once again on this one. Aces job by all – CRX

What Purpose Does It Serve?

from Never Again (a compendium) by moth wranglers

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The music for this song was inspired by the great San Francisco band *Waycross*. Waycross had a beautiful and powerful song that was one chord throughout. I tried to match that, but I couldn’t get by with less than 4 chords. Victor and Jonathan pulled through for us once again on this one. Aces job by all – CRX

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One dark and stormy evening
You gave yourself to me
We lingered in our bed of sin
And laughed how free we’d be

From rules meant for mere mortals
Not for the likes of us
But then the winds of gossip bent
Our love into mistrust

Oh, what purpose does it serve?
We all get what we deserve
And I shall never love again —
What purpose does it serve?

How spitefully the tongues did wag
And how our hearts did rue
For you and I were promised, dear
But to others — oh, ’tis true!

We longed to be together
In a world apart from shame
But when our sin came home again
It tainted both our names

Oh, what purpose does it serve?
We all get what we deserve
And I shall never love again —
For what purpose does it serve?

You said our dreams was stronger
Than the earthly bonds of law
And we should be exhaulted
Despite our fleshly flaws

For we thought our love was ageless
But in time it fell to dust
And now by Fortune parted
We find it's merely lust

And what purpose does it serve?
We all get what we deserve
For I shall never love again —
What purpose does it serve?

Yes, what purpose does it serve
Under heaven’s blessed curve?
Oh, I shall never love again —
For what purpose does it serve?

Yes, I shall never love again —
For what purpose does it serve?

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from Never Again (a compendium), released November 10, 2010
Music by: Chris Xefos
Lyrics by: LD Beghtol (Nice Boys Music/ASCAP)

LD Beghtol – Vocal, baritone ukulele, Optigan, percussion
Chris Xefos – Vocal
Victor Krummenacher – Acoustic and bass guitar
Jonathan Segel – Electric guitar, violin
Chuck Plummer – Background vocals

Recorded at Magnetic Recording by Chris Xefos
Additional recording and editing at Earthlight Room by Hillary Johnson
Mixed at Dogpatch Recording by Chris Xefos

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moth wranglers San Francisco, California

moth wranglers was a musical collaboration formed in 1998 by Chris Xefos (ex-King Missile), and LD Beghtol (Flare, The Magnetic Fields). In their decade-long involvement, the pair created music/recordings featuring their own talents alongside many noted guest rock/pop musicians/friends of an experimental and not so bent. moth wranglers disbanded in 2010. ... more

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