Faster, hammers!
Faster, hammers!
Churn and turn into my late train to my lost love!
Ring away today, stick, bruise into my felt, or so I felt
I found a skeleton tooth in the junk ...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Fiery Furnaces
But there was one other man with whom I didn't get along.
The Bishop
would head down, head down to Deerport Station,
to see what stars on the silver screen might be seen,
or Broad...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Fiery Furnaces
Now, as for my aunt, who told on me
She was always wearing her turbans
Sailing back to Greece on the Normandy
Having dinner at the captain's table
Sitting on the deck with five men...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Fiery Furnaces
How the years have gone.
It's come to this.
A rose on his lapel, in the open coffin I'd give him a kiss.
I have to go up north to play at his funeral,
and his wife is there,
in so...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Fiery Furnaces
Well, no one was too upset.
You know we were married in the war,
And I went with him to Pennsylvania and California.
But he went out the Pacific,
And I came back to Chicago to work...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Fiery Furnaces
A night out in the tropics,
Turned out I couldn't cope.
After the School of Fancy Cookery
With Antoinette Pope.
I learned brazing and saucing, meringue and sift,
Knead, flute and ...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Fiery Furnaces
"Well, good for you.
But we have something too."
So said my aunt.
A bowling alley and lunch counter
Filled with fellas on their lunch break,
From the Western Electric plant at a s...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Fiery Furnaces
My little sister had a glass of wine,
No doubt a glass of wine too many.
"I bet he's out right now with his Nazi whore,
That's right, I said it, that's what she is,
And when he f...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Fiery Furnaces
Though Let's Be Fair
Though let's be fair
I had other loves before my husband
Other sweethearts
Tom Kitsos, for instance
And another I won't mention
I loved him truly, or so I th...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Fiery Furnaces