danny schmidt lyrics @dannyschmidtbot

my friend makes rings, she swirls and sings she’s a mystic in the sense that she’s still mystified by things

champagne soup and dancing lessons dizzy on the floor

there's no slamming doors no rattling chains no long black veils at night but you'd wish there was cause then you might could die to put things right

God bless the sound of music God bless the golden rule that's why all my friends are beggars and all my friends are mules

oh hey now, hey now, what can you do? you went off happily ever after sadly all I was ever after's you

all by my lonesome and by myself ain't no soul left this boy can sell

give back, give back, give back, it's all for that

and how the nectar in the flowers and how the flowers on the vine they’d turn his blood from fever into honey-juice and wine

and there was everything your mouth says that your lips don't understand and every shape inside your head you can't carve with your hands

but ghosts have got no bodies left and ghosts have got no will and the water tastes like rancid oil and the mockingbirds just howl

and you can never touch someone you love it'll burn them if you try and the face inside the mirror stares back with goldfish bowls for eyes and the only dream you ever have is of lying there awake and it never rains upon your head it spits into your face

the factory was made of gold and all the workers loved him so and thirteen hour days are slow but they kept the children fed

once upon a time in a kingdom ill-defined a dark-eyed prince sat sideways on his throne and he cast aside the thoughts of his princess long and lost and decided he’d live principally alone

so burn me down a dance floor and blur me down a line and turn me down the chance before I chance to make you mine

and so we kill it like a buffalo, with awe and with respect

Grampa built bridges like mountains and birds now he's curled at the bottom where the sun can't warm

so here I am and here I sit and here is where I'll be trapped inside the bank vault til the police rescue me and take me to the big house where there ain't no girls like you and where the boys all tell you what they want and that's all you've gotta do

like a dandelion sneeze or a cloud that's raining thirst there's a love that swings around us spreading seeds upon the earth

cause it's the edge of the trance where the ankle bells dance and where the night's just beginning to shine

is it darkness that inspires us, or passion that requires us to have to stay so loose to be so happy, happy all the time