
Date of issue: 21.06.2009
Record label: 4AD
Song language: English
Stand By Your Manatee |
This one time |
I was running through the fields |
When I came across a dead guy |
With a letter in his hand |
So I scanned it |
And though the grammar was okay |
There was such a lack of purpose |
That it was difficult to care |
But anyway, hidden in the mess of letters lies the awful truth |
Yeah, that Emma’s mum and dad use plastic forks |
Yeah, nothing in this life can take her common shame away |
Yeah, 'cause Emma’s mum and dad use plastic forks |
The next day (about ten o’clock) |
It was playing on my mind (well, I say it was) |
So I edited it for context (good job) |
Till there was nothing fit to print |
But anyway, hidden in the mess of letters lies the awful truth |
Yeah, that Emma’s mum and dad use plastic forks |
Woah, but nothing in this life can take her common shame away |
Yeah, 'cause Emma’s mum and dad use plastic forks |
Maybe it’s an old cliché, but sometimes things are better left expected |
You let your manatee down and then you drown: that’s just the way with nature |
I’ve been here once or twice before with better hair, and let me tell you |
Only the good die young, except for when they don’t, it’s not exactly fair |
Yeah yeah yeah yeah, it’ll never be a kingdom’s share |
Yeah yeah yeah yeah, it’ll never be a kingdom’s share |
Yeah yeah yeah yeah, it’ll never be a kingdom’s share |
Yeah yeah yeah yeah, it’ll never be a kingdom’s share |
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