| I get a Giacometti feeling as I walk through a crowd Getting thinner by the
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| minute, moving walls of sound
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| I was red hot once, forged by the fire, by the hearth, by the hallway,
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| by the family--lyre
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| Bent and prodded 'til the fire went out
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| Cold like the winters in the great north woods
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| Ice like the look in my mother’s eyes
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| Blinded by the fire, buckled by the cold
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| I was electrified, villified, seduced and scorned
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| Left for dead and nobody mourned
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| I geta Giacometti feeling as I walk through the crowd Sometimes I tower,
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| more often I cower
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| Wrap my steely arms around the cold, iron gates
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| But I’m no match for the seven fates
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| Sweating i the cold as I wait for my date
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| Her offal-streaked hair and her pitted teeth
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| The lines on her face like an old briefcase
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| The scabs on her fingers like a box-car tarp
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| I was electrified villified, seduced and scorned
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| Left for dead and nobody mourned
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| I geta Giacometti feeling as I walk through the crowd THE CROWD, THIS HEAT,
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| YOUR DOG STILL LEAVES ME COLD THE CROWD THESE WALLS THE COLD MAKES ME FALL |
| Where the dog sucks in its metal breath
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| By the museum where I see bodies that can’t compare to her
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| 'Cause my date she’s got the most perfect skin
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| 'Cause my date sh’es got a belly I could grow up in
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| 'Cause my date she’s got arches of fun and glory
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| 'Cause my date, she’s got such a glamorous lilt Sweating in the crowd like a
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| Giacometti Hound
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| THE CROWD, THIS HEAT… |