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THE DECEMBERISTS lyrics : "Odalisque"


They've come to find you, Odalisque
As the light dies horribly

On a fire escape you walk
All rare and resolved to drop


And when they find you, Odalisque
They will rend you, terribly
Stitch from stitch 'til all

Your linen limbs will fall

Lazy lady had a baby girl

And a sweet it made
Raised on pradies, peanut shells and dirt
In a railroad cul-de-sac


And what do we do with ten baby shoes
A kit bag full of marbles and a broken billiard cue?

What do we do?
What do we do?


Fifteen stitches will mend those britches right
And them rip them down again
Sapling switches will rend those rags alright

What a sweet sound it makes

And what we do with ten dirty Jews

A thirty-ought full of rock salt and a warm afternoon?
What do we do?
What do we do?


Lay your belly under mine
Naked under me, under me

Such a filthy dimming shine
The way you kick and scream, kick and scream


And what do we with ten baby shoes
A kit bag full of marbles and broken billiard cue?
What do we do?

What do we do?

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