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The Deborah Harry song catalog you find on this page was compiled by me, the webmaster, with the help of my personal record collection, booklets, biographies, setlists, ASCAP, the LoC (Library of Congress), articles and (live) bootlegs. It's my goal to create a page which features Deborah's complete musical body of work, no matter if Deborah was in any way musically involved herself or whether she contributed her own lyrics to a project. In order to keep up the standard of this page and to make it grow you can help by submitting song titles and/or information which are missing on this site. Every contribution is greatly appreciated. Official song lyrics were taken from booklets. I transcribed those songs myself where no official lyrics were available (with no guarantee for their accuracy). I apologize for possible errors and will gladly take corrections. I kindly ask you not to copy any of these lyrics from this page.
All song pages include links to the albums, singles and/or live albums which they were released on. Best Ofs and soundtracks were only listed if there is a special mix available on the record or the song title itself was previously unreleased.

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INFO

length: 5:55
words by: David Cale
music by: Roy Nathanson, Marc Ribot & David Cale

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FEATURED ON

The Jazz Passengers (featuring Deborah Harry) - Individually Twisted [album] (1997)

IMITATION OF A KISS

This is an imitation of a kiss
An imitation's all it is and when I kiss you it may look like a kiss
Call it a kiss this imitation of love

It's an imitation of romance
All hollow gestures and demands
You get agressive

So tired of routines
You go to extremes
This imitation of romance

There's a place I used to go
It's closed down long ago
I'd lie down there in your darkness watching rivers flow

Now it's an imitation of love
No one's fooling no one
And though you're here now I'm so far away
Let's call it a day
This imitation of a kiss

When it looks like all is lost here something reappears
All my reasons leave the room now, leaving you still here

This is an imitation of goodbye
I say it's over all the time, yet I'm still with you
Don't know why it is I can't resist this imitation of a kiss

REMIXES & OTHER VERSIONS

[no official remixes available]

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