Augie March

9 besedil pesmi

Here comes the night

O how can you breathe little blue? You have hooks, you have holes in you, In absentium and in lieu of all the things that have been promised you... ...

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Angels of the bowling green

We know that they don't want to But memory insists - Memories of water, Fantasies of fins, So be off baby seal. Swim little fish... Under macker...

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Sunset studies

Well all by and by and all through and through, this is the only thing that comes back to you, how you banged her on a cannon in a World War Two par...

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Maroondah reservoir

La, la, la, the early bird he knows, You hang from the cherry bough When you're lichen yourself, and leave - The cold cold scent of stone and mulch...

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Asleep in perfection

Well under this low, lonely light I might be still in sight, You were a girl, now you're a wife Do not these memories stir you From your long and ...

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Tulip

There were lions by the roadside, I was driving with my Father, Through a dream of French forests, and all was warmth and solace, And all said He is...

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The good gardener (on how he fell)

I saw twilight car waxers, corpulent dog walkers, clean canny couples on the sunset strip, From a tower forty miles to the east of Augusta saw a plag...

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The offer

Country and city, kingdom of the well, of the unwell, You dwell in them both like a ghost - When old King George said to my long dead kin 'Ten summ...

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Little wonder

It's very little wonder if you cry, It's very little wonder you don't cry, The birds were framed, the babies were framed, and so too the black sky....

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