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Crooked Sighs (Extended)
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[Dawn Tableau] Carriage bells fade beneath a leaden sky The scarecrow tips its battered hat nearby Slippers sink in sodden garden mud A child’s hat floats out on creaky flood [Awakening] Muffled thunder scraping up the lane A dozing fencepost startles at the rain Yesterday’s papers flutter at my feet As Sunday’s ghosts begin to sound retreat [Curtain Rises] Distant horns swell through the blackened weeds Jackdaw feathers caught upon the reeds A suitcase weeps beneath the paling sign Brambles scratch their names into the twine [Foreword] Idle boots collect the puddle’s skin A penny spins the tales I’m tangled in Broken windows blinking in the field Gutters gathering truths that never yield [Opening Scene] Fog drapes heavy over leaning stone Rusty gates sigh secrets not their own Moonlit bottles rolling down the lane Ashen cats rehearse a masked refrain [Pre-Prologue] Clouds parade in borrowed hats of brass A tired wheel sketches on the glass Shadows trade old buttons for a tune Sunday shoes slip silent past the moon [Prologue] Morning moans behind the broken gate A rubber ball rolls out in search of fate The milkman shouts at shadows in his cart And kitchen clocks wake up too late to start [Intro Verse] Mist curls round the picket fence like thread A faded blueprint stamped across my head Tin can soldiers muddle up the street While paperboys forget whose hands they meet [Verse 1] Monday brought the circus to my street A marching band of ghosts without their feet The garden gnomes are gathering to scheme A hatless man is shouting from a dream [Pre-Chorus] The window’s grown a silent nose It listens through the tea-stained day If order’s just a crumpled pose I’ll let the roads lead away [Chorus] I walk upon the crooked sighs Where shadows double in my mind Fences laugh at passing eyes And everyone’s pretending not to mind [Post-Chorus] La la la, oh la la la La la la, oh la la la [Verse 2] Yesterday the clocks forgot to ring Mrs. Stanley’s painting on the wall could sing I tip my hat to the statues in the hall They chase me down the ever-shrinking hall [Pre-Chorus] They say I should stay inside But the curtains swallow my day If sanity's an old disguise I’ll let the world melt away [Chorus] I walk upon the crooked sighs Where shadows double in my mind Fences laugh at passing eyes And everyone’s pretending not to mind [Post-Chorus] La la la, oh la la la La la la, oh la la la [Bridge] There’s paper moons strung up above my bed A soldier’s cap is where I rest my head The spiders tell me secrets of the floor Their little boots are marching out the door [Pre-Chorus] The wallpaper’s begun to breathe It hums till morning’s pale parade If logic’s just a handkerchief I think I’ll let it fade [Chorus] I walk upon the crooked sighs Where shadows double in my mind Fences laugh at passing eyes And everyone’s pretending not to mind [Post-Chorus] La la la, oh la la la La la la, oh la la la La la la, oh la la la La la la, oh la la la
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