Flies Lyrics

They used to think the swallows were living underwater All through the winter when they were missing from the trees They used to think the geese budded from the branches Each gentl...Read Full Lyrics

The octopus has three hearts, it lives in caves below the sea Or in a beer can or a bath tub or a puddle on the street Any fisherman can tell you when an octopus waves its arms It ...Read Full Lyrics

The blue house at the corner of Twilight and State Four storeys, soaring turrets, floors of wood parquet And owls, so many owls, snowy, horned and screech Thousands of owls, all f...Read Full Lyrics

Sylvia was struck by lightning While reading in bed one night She'd left the window open And the storm caught her by surprise For days she lay as still as stone Hooked to pumps ...Read Full Lyrics

Up the snowy spires, where the air is thin as glass Once a year, the cold mists clear and you can see inside the earth High in that crystal palace I built a sailing ship Mast and w...Read Full Lyrics

Granny Green was stooped as a windblown branch She lived high in the bramble forest Once a fortnight, if the moon shone right, she came down to our little village She brought black...Read Full Lyrics

Lovely Mary Sweeney, the famous window smasher Was just a quiet school marm from Lacrosse, Wisconsin She took a pinch of cocaine but only for her nerves Laudanum for trembling hand...Read Full Lyrics

Good Dr. Brown, he fell in love with a girl with sleeves of such rosy silk But her dark eyes roved away, away like the soaring gulls on the wine-dark sea One night he begged she be...Read Full Lyrics

In the shadows, in the bushes, in the space between the leaves A spider in a thicket crawled up on my knee I put my gloves on, put my hat on, and I ran from the trees But that litt...Read Full Lyrics

When Stephen Foster died in a flop-house on the Bowery His worn-out wallet held just a quarter and a dime But the crocodiles, they have to eat, the crocodiles have to eat He smash...Read Full Lyrics