Alice It¡¯s dreamy weather we¡¯re on You
waved your crooked wand Along an icy pond, with a frozen moon A murder of
silhouette crows, I saw in the tears on my face And the skates on the
pond, they spell "Alice"
I'll disappear in your name, but you
must wait for me Somewhere across the sea, there¡¯s the wreck of a
ship Your hair is like meadow-grass, on the tide And the raindrops on my
window, and the ice in my drink Baby, all I can think of is
"Alice"
Arithmetic, arithmetock,
turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did
the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here are tangled
up around the pier
And so a secret kiss brings madness with
the bliss And I will think of this when I¡¯m dead in my grave Set me
adrift, and I¡¯m lost over there And I must be insane, to go skating on your
name And by tracing it twice, I fell through the ice of "Alice"
And so a secret kiss brings madness with
the bliss And I will think of this when I¡¯m dead in my grave Set me
adrift, and I¡¯m lost over there And I must be insane, to go skating on your
name And by tracing it twice, I fell through the ice of "Alice"
There¡¯s only
"Alice"
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Everything You Can Think Of Is
True
Everything you can think of is
true Before the ocean was blue We were lost in a flood Run red with
your blood Nigerian skeleton crew Everything you can think of is
true The dish ran away with the spoon Dig deep in your heart for that
little red glow We¡¯re decomposing as we go
Everything you can think of is
true And fishes make wishes on you We¡¯re fighting our way up dreamland¡¯s
spine With red flamingos and expensive wine
Everything you can think of is
true The baby¡¯s asleep in your shoe Your teeth are buildings with yellow
doors Your eyes are fish on a creamy shore
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Flower's
Grave Someday the silver moon and I Will
go to Dreamland I will close my eyes And wake up there in
Dreamland Tell me who will put flowers On a flower's grave Who will
say a prayer
Will I meet a China rose there In
Dreamland Or does love lie bleeding In Dreamland Are these days
forever and always
And if we are to die tonight Is
there a moonlight up ahead And if we are to die tonight Another rose
will bloom
For a faded rose Will I be the one
that you save I love when it showers But no one puts flowers On a
flower's grave
As one rose blooms and another will
die It's always been that way I remember the showers But no one puts
flowers On a flower's grave
And if we are to die tonight Is
there a moonlight up ahead I remember the showers But no one puts
flowers On a flower's grave(2)
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No One Knows I'm
Gone Hell above and Heaven below All the
trees are gone The rain made such a lovely sound To those who are six feet
under ground The leaves will bury every year And no one knows I¡¯m
gone
Live me golden tell me dark Hide from
Graveyard John (But) The moon is full here every night And I can bathe
here in his light The leaves will bury every year And no one knows I¡¯m
gone
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Kommienezuspadt (Aka. Komme Nie Zu Spät)
... [untranscribable fantasy
German]... Komme nie zu spät! Komme nie zu spät! Komme nie zu
spät! Komme nie zu spät!
Sei punktlich! Sei punktlich! Sei
punktlich!
Komme nie zu spät! Komme nie zu
spät! Komme nie zu spät! Komme nie zu spät! And we can't be
late! And we can't be late!
... [untranscribable fantasy
German]... And we can't be late! Komme nie, komme nie, komme nie zu
spät! Komme nie zu spät! Komme nie zu spät! Komme nie zu spät!
... [untranscribable fantasy
German]... And we can't be late! And we can't be late! And we can't be
late! And we can't be late! Komme nie zu spät! Komme nie zu
spät!
Sei punktlich! Sei punktlich! Sei
punktlich!
Komme nie zu spät! Komme nie zu
spät!
Ha, ha, ha, ha! Ha, ha, ha,
ha! Ha, ha, ha, ha! Komme nie zu
spät!
... [untranscribable fantasy
German]... And we can't be late! And we can't be late! And we can't be
late! Sei punktlich! Sei punktlich! Komme nie zu spät!
Komme nie, komme nie, komme nie zu
spät!
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Poor Edward (Aka Chained Together For
Life)
Did you hear the news about
Edward?(2) On the back of his head he had another face Was it a
woman's face or a young girl? They said to remove it would kill him So
poor Edward was doomed
The face could laugh and cry It was
his devil twin And at night she spoke to him Things heard only in
hell But they were impossible to separate Chained together for
life
Finally the bell tolled his doom He
took a suite of rooms And hung himself and her from the balcony irons Some
still believe he was freed from her But I knew her too well I say she
drove him to suicide And took poor Edward to hell
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Tabletop
Joe
I knew one day... One. One, two. One,
two, three...
Well, my mama didn¡¯t want me on the
day I was born I was born without a body(4) I got nothing but
scorn But I always loved music all I had was my hands I dreamed I'd be
famous and I¡¯d work at The Sands
Singing: Tabletop Joe, Tabletop
Joe Now everyone will know That I'm Tabletop Joe
I had trouble with the pedals but I
had a strong left hand I could play Stravinsky on a baby grand I said,
¡®I¡¯m gonna join the circus cause that¡¯s where I belong¡¯ So I went to Coney
Island(3) I was singing this song
Tabletop Joe, Tabletop Joe Now
everyone knows Yeah I'm Tabletop Joe
They gave me top billing in the
Dreamland show(3) I had my own orchestra starring Tabletop
Joe And the man without a body proved everyone wrong I was rich and I
was famous I was where I belonged
Tabletop Joe, Tabletop Joe Now
everyone knows Tabletop Joe
Sing it old boy!
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Lost In The Harbour (Aka. But There's Never A Rose)
Over here the ladies all want sweet
perfume But there's never a rose And over there roses are frightened to
bloom So they never can grow
And over here they need wool For
weaving their baby's new clothes But nobody has any wool And the sheep
are all lost in the harbour Lost in the harbour...
And over here they want diamonds to wear
But there aren't any here And over there everyone's hiding their tears
But they're crying inside
And the wall won't come down Till
they're no longer afraid of themselves And if you don't believe me, ask
yourselves And then I can come down to the harbour Down to the harbour
And then I will fill the ocean back up
with my tears I still have a couple more years And then I can come back
to the harbour Down to the harbour(2)
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We're All Mad
Here (Aka Hang Me In The Bottle)
You can hang me in a bottle like a cat
Let the crows pick me clean but for my hat Where the wailing of a
baby meets the footsteps of the dead We're all mad
here
As the devil sticks his flag into the
mud Mrs. Carol has run off with Reverend Judd Hell is such a lonely
place And your big expensive face will never last
And you'll die with the rose still on
your lips And in time the heart-shaped bone that was your hips And the
worms, they will climb the rugged ladder of your spine We're all mad
here
And my eyeballs roll this terrible
terrain And we're all inside a decomposing train And your eyes will die
like fish And the shore of your face will turn to bone
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Watch Her
Disappear
Last night I dreamed that I was dreaming
of you... And from a window across the lawn I watched you undress Wearing
a sunset of purple tightly woven around your hair That rose in strangled
ebony curls moving in a yellow bedroom light. The air is wet with
sound. The faraway yelping of a wounded dog. And the ground is drinking
a slow faucet leak. Your house is so soft and fading as it soaks the
black summer heat. A light goes on and the door opens. And a yellow cat
runs out on the stream of hall light and into the yard.
A wooden cherry scent is faintly
breathing the air. I hear your champagne laugh. You wear two lavender
orchids, one in your hair and one on your hip. A string of yellow
carnival lights comes on with the dusk, Circling the lake with a slowly
dipping halo and I hear a banjo tango.
And you dance into the shadow of a black
poplar tree And I watched you as you disappeared. I watched you as you
disappeared. I watched you as you disappeared. I watched you as you
disappeared.(2)
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Reeperbahn
Around the curve of The Parrot Bar A
broken-down old movie star Hustling and Easterner Bringing out the beast
in her A high dive on a swimming pool Filled with needles and with
fools The memories are short but the tales are long When you're in the
Reeperbahn(2)
Oh, they called her Rosie when she was a
girl For her bright red cheeks and strawberry curls When she would laugh
the river would run She said she'd be a comedian Oh what a pity, oh what a
shame When she said ¡®come calling¡¯ nobody came Now her bright red cheeks
are painted on And she's laughing her head off in the Reeperbahn
Now little Hans was always
strange Wearing women's underthings His father beat him but he wouldn't
change He ran off with a man one day Now his lingerie is all the
rage In the black on every page His father proudly calls his name Down
there in the Reeperbahn
Now if you've lost your
inheritance And all you've left is common sense And you're not too picky
'bout the crowd you keep Or the mattress where you sleep Behind every
window, behind every door The apple's gone but there's always the core And
the seeds will sprout up right through the floor Down there in the
Reeperbahn.
Down there in the Reeperbahn.
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I'm Still
Here
You haven't looked at me that way in
years You dreamed me up and left me here How long was I dreaming
for What was it you wanted me for
You haven't looked at me that way in
years Your watch has stopped and the pond is clear Someone turn the
lights back off I'll love you til all time is gone(2)
You haven't looked at me that way in
years But I'm still here.
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Fish And
Bird
They bought a round for the
sailor And they heard his tale Of a world that was so far away And a
song that we'd never heard A song of a little bird That fell in
love with a whale
He said: You cannot live in the
ocean And she said to him: You never can live in the sky But the
ocean is filled with tears And the sea turns into a mirror And there's a
whale in the moon when it's clear And a bird on the tide
Please don't cry Let me dry Your
eyes
So tell me that you will wait for
me Hold me in your arms I promise we never will part I'll never sail
back to the time But I'll always pretend you're mine Though I know that
we both must part You can live in my heart
Please don't cry Let me dry Your
eyes
And tell me that you will wait for
me Hold me in your arms I promise we never will part I'll never sail
back to the time But I'll always pretend that you're mine I know that we
both must part You can live in my heart (2)
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Barcarolle
A cloud lets go of the moon Her
ribbons are all out of tune She is skating on the ice in a glass in the
hands of a man That she kissed on a train And the children are all gone
into town to get candy and we are alone in the house here And your eyes
fall down on me
And I belong only to you The water is
filling my shoes In the wine of my heart there's a stone In a well made of
bone That you bring to the pond And I'm here in your pocket curled up
in a dollar And the chain from your watch around my neck And I'll stay
right here until it's time...
The girls all knit in the
shade before the baby is made And the branches bend down to the
ground here to swing on I'm lost in the blond summer grass And the
train whistle blows And the carnival goes Till there's only the tickets
and crows And the grass will all grow back
And the branches spell "Alice" And I
belong only to you
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