Lonesome Organist Rapes Page Turner

Album: No, Virginia... (2006)
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  • He told me that I knew what to laugh at
    And I wanted to but I just couldn't ask if he would take it back so I could know for certain
    So on the bench I watched his left hand crossing
    While doubling entendres with the voicings
    He said "O darling, you're charming
    Please don't find it alarming if I pull this stop out to free up a hand for heavy petting"

    Now there there
    I'm a friendly man
    I joke about sex because it's funny when you're frightened

    So silently I sat and turned the pages
    Recalculating our respective ages
    Over my shoulder, he muttered, "If I get any older
    You can hack my wrists off with your choice of objects
    No, I'm kidding"

    Don't be scared
    I'm a friendly man
    I joke about death because it's funny when you're frightened

    This is as far as I could get
    He jabbed a needle in my neck
    Erasing all the evidence
    But there were matchsticks in my pants
    And if a rock should hit my head
    And I remember what he did
    You'll be the very first to know
    Maybe I'll find out why this damn thing won't stop bleeding

    He told me that I showed a great potential
    That given I turned heads and pages
    Fame would be a piece of cake
    But practice was essential
    So like a stupid child I believed it
    And golly who would had agreed if
    I had been Schubert or Mozart
    Devoted to the fine art of perfecting absolutely everything inconsequential

    Don't be sad
    I'll come back again
    I joke about trash 'cause it takes class to be enlightened

    So several decades have gone by
    I am still sitting by his side
    I turn the pages faithfully
    He turns his head and smiles at me
    And with a wink he says, "I doubt
    We would be anywhere without
    Your gift for keeping truth and consequence from meeting" Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Cat from CtI think turning pages and turning head is self explanatory. and I think this is like kinda just like her Miss Me song. In both I think that she knew the person and found them creepy.
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