Edith Wharton's Figurines Lyrics

You said, come with me And so I did I thought I could take All your sorrow I thought I could hold it all I never imagined Your oceans So bitter The killing The falling The slaughte...Read Full Lyrics

50-50 chance The doctor said In the cardiac room As she's lying in bed There's a pan on the floor Filled with something black I need to know I'm afraid to ask I hug you I hum t...Read Full Lyrics

Here I am at last, I've just jumped off the train I'm about to start my life as a wanderer in the rain I know so many people would give anything to be in my shoes Well, that's all ...Read Full Lyrics

How I hate the Queen of Pentacles! Sitting on her golden throne In her domestic tyranny All roads lead back to her alone The whole wide world is a great big drain And the vo...Read Full Lyrics

"We never fought in bed," she supposedly said about Sinatra. "The fight would start on the way to the bidet." On the way to the bidet Is when the trouble used to start It didn't me...Read Full Lyrics

If you had no name If you had no history If you had no books If you had no family If it were only you Naked on the grass Who would you be then? This is what he asked And I said I...Read Full Lyrics

You come from far away With pictures in your eyes Of coffeeshops and morning streets In the blue and silent sunrise But night is the cathedral Where we recognized the sign We stran...Read Full Lyrics

The ceiling had a painting on it In our room in france So we were living underneath Some angels in a dance My husband was not feeling well And so we went to bed He woke up complai...Read Full Lyrics

The sign said 'headshots' And that was all, A picture of a boy And a number you could call, Two eyes in the shade A mouth so sad and small, It's strange the way a shadow Can fall a...Read Full Lyrics

I'll never be your Maggie May The one you loved and left behind The face you see in light of day Then you cast away That isn't me in that bed you'll find I'd rather take myself aw...Read Full Lyrics