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- Alice
- Everything You Can Think
- Flower's Grave
- No One Knows I'm Gone
- Poor Edward
- Table Top Joe
- Lost In The Harbour
- We're All Mad Here
- Watch Her Disappear
- Reeperbahn
- I'm Still Here
- Fish And Bird
- Barcarolle
Alice
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It's dreamy weather we're on
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You waved your crooked wand
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Along an icy pond, with a frozen moon
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A murder of silhouette crows, I saw
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In the tears on my face
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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
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Baby, all I can think of is "Alice"
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Arithmetic, arithmetock
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Turn the hands back on the clock
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How does the ocean rock the boat?
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How did the razor find my throat?
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The only strings that hold me here
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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
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And by tracing it twice
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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"
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There's only Alice
Everything You Can Think
Everything you can think of is true
Before the ocean was blue
We were lost in a flood, run red with you blood
Nigerian skeleton crew
Everything you can think of is true
The dish ran away with a 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
Flower's Grave
Someday the silver moon and I will go to dreamland
I will close my eyes and wake up there in dreamland
But 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 gone forever and always
And if we are to die tonight is there 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
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
No One Knows I'm Gone
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Hell above and heaven below
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All the trees are gone
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The rain makes such a lovely sound
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To those who are six feet underground
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The leaves will bury every year
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And no one knows I'm gone
Live me gold and tell me dark
Hide from Graveyard John
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
Poor Edward
Did you hear the news about Edward?
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
At night she spoke to him
Of things heard only in hell
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 will 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
Table Top Joe
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Well, my mama didn't want me on the day I was born
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I was born without a body, I got nothing but scorn
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But I always loved music, all I had was my hands
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I dreamed I'd be famous and I'd work at The Sands
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Singing Table Top Joe, Table Top Joe
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Now everyone will know
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That I'm Table Top 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, I was singing this song
Table Top Joe, Table Top Joe
Now everyone knows
Yeah, I'm Table Top Joe
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They gave me top billing in the Dreamland show
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I had my own orchestra starring Table Top Joe
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And the man without a body, proved everyone wrong
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I was rich and I was famous, I was where I belonged
Table Top Joe, Table Top Joe
Now everyone knows
Table Top Joe
Take it home, boy!
Lost In The Harbour
Over here the ladies all want sweet perfume
But there's never a rose
And over there the roses are frightened to bloom
So they never can grow
And over here they need wool for weaving 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 'til they're no longer afraid of themselves
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
We're All Mad Here
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
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 your 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
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
Oh, they called her Rosie when she was a girl
For her bright red cheeks and her 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 about the crowd you keep
Or the mattress where you sleep
Behind every window, behind every door
The apple has 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
Down there in the Reeperbahn
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 till all time is gone
You haven't looked at me that way in years
But I'm still here
Fish And Bird
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They bought a round for the sailor
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And they heard his tale
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Of a world that was so far away
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And a song that we'd never heard
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A song of a little bird
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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
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Oh, please don't cry
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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
Oh, 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
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
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 blonde summer grass
And the train whistle blows
And the carnival goes
Till there's only the tickets and crows here
And the grass will all grow back
And the branches spell "Alice"
And I belong only to you
