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lyrics

Here's a table in the garden
Pretty bird now drink your feathers
Pretty thing you are so pretty
Talk to me about the weather

I have wings and I have whistles
I make noises like an airplane
You have eyes like honey buttons
If I ate them would you complain

(Occupy your shaking mouth
All you need is gin and tonic
I would swallow rope and light bulbs
Though my love is embryonic)

If you blinked into my waistcoat
I would leave a blueish stain
And bite through all the icy fibers
Of your little frozen brain

(Now my friends and mutilations
Listen to me spit through silence
Wrapping butterflies in metal
Nothing's more sincere than violence)

Butter spread between your eyebrows
Here's a napkin for that mouse ear
Yes the sky seems greener lately
I know you must like it too dear

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from In the Palace of Green Porcelain, released December 4, 2009

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Helen America Seattle, Washington

Helen America is a singer/songwriter, cartoonist, and multimedia visual artist. Her music is deeply personal and passionate avant-garde indie-chamber-pop, with the dense lyricism of Joanna Newsom, the visionary weirdness of Jeff Mangum, and the raw emotional energy of Patti Smith. ... more

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