St. Vincent - Marry Me (2007)

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Come, my love, the stage is waiting,
Be the one to save my saving grace.

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While Jesus is saving, I'm spending all my days
in backgrounds and landscapes with the languages of saints.
While people are spinning like toys on Christmas day,
I'm inside a still life with the other absentee.

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I read the signs,
I got all my stars aligned,
My amulets, my charms,
I set all my false alarms,
So I'll be someone
Who won't be forgotten.

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Romeo, where'd you go?
It's been years and still no sign,
But I'm keeping hope alive. Juliet, how you been?
You look like death like you sure could use some rest
from this place human racing and the faces of people who pound at your door
They always want more — they want more.

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All your praying moments amount to just one breath.
Please keep your victory
But give me little death.

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A lot of the songs have a duality about them; one part is totally sincere, and there's another part that is kind of smirking and making light of it all. Or there's a very dark streak about it.

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I'm not the pawn to your king
I'm not your world on a string
I'm not anyone you'll beat
I'm not anything

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Marry me, John, I'll be so good to you —
You won't realize I'm gone,
You won't realize I'm gone.

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There are no signs,
There are no stars aligned,
No amulets no charms,
To bring you back to my arms.
There's just this human heart.
That's built with this human fault.
What was your question?
Love is the answer.

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Many people wanna make money, make love,
make friends, make peace with death —
But most mainly want to win the game they came to win
they want to come out ahead.
But you, you're a rock, with a heart like a socket I can plug into at will.
And will you guess when I come around next.
I hope your open sign is blinking still.

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I'm not your mother's favorite dog
I'm not the carpet you walk on
I'm not one small atomic bomb
I'm not any any any anything at all.

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It's time.
You are light.
I guess you are afraid of what everyone is made of —
Time and Light.

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Tell the truth now
Your heart is a strange little orange to peel
What's the deal?

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While Jesus is saving, I'm spending all my grace,
on rosy-red pallor of lights on center stage.
While people have cheered on the awful mess we've made,
through storms of red roses we've exited the stage

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Your lips are red
My face is red from reading your red lips

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As for me I would have to agree,
I'm as fickle as a paper doll
being kicked by the wind —
when I touch down again
I'll be in someone elses arms

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Now, now...
You don't mean that say you're sorry
You don't mean that... I'll make you sorry

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I do a dance to make the rain come,
Smile to keep the sky from falling down, down, down, down.
Collect the love that I've been given
Build a nest for us to sleep in here
You know it's real.

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While people will cheer on the spectacle we've made
I'm sitting and sculpting menageries of saints.

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I'm crawling through landmines
Just to know where you are.

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Little lamb, what's your plan?
Greener pastures in the sky?
It's a shame you want to die know why
Just to find you've been blinded to the greenest of pastures they're right here on Earth
For what it's worth you're not the first to break my heart.

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