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The Bedside Drama: A Petite Tragedy

by of Montreal

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Your hair is so dark, it’s curls are dancing flames of black fire Allah created you just for us to admire I doubt that you’re the only one like you that I’ll find But for sure you’re one of a very few of a kind, Yes you are Your eyes are so clear, the seem to speak to me from a gleeful world And they look link singing moons made of black pearl. I’m not saying that you’re the only one like you that I’ll find But for sure you’re one of a very few of a kind, Yes you are You’re as stunning as a tidal wave of wisteria Just a smile from you has sent gents into histeria I doubt that you’re the only one like you that I’ll find But for sure you’re one of a very few of a kind One of a very few of a kind
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I am a happy yellow bumblebee, I fly around the flowers and trees and all morning long, I flutter about in the swirling breeze and the sun is yellow like me I am a happy yellow bumblebee, everything’s so much bigger than me but I’m not afraid, for if something gets too close, I give them a sting that makes them howl and scamper away.. No I’m not afraid, though sometimes I get lonely because my parents are dead and I can’t find my brothers or sisters.. At night the sky looks so black and I can’t find the sun. It doesn’t matter how hard i try, but when i feel like I’m covered in darkness, and that light won’t touch me anymore… I hear the cardinals singing and I know who they’re singing for when I see the sun…… That makes me a happy yellow bumblebee, all my friends are beetles and centipedes and all summer long we laugh and we play, but we don’t talk to spiders because they’re mean and they try to trick us, because they want to eat us.. but they’ll never beat us….
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Miniature woodwinds whistle underwater while electric eels make the ocean warm in summer Olives that were left on the sand become bathing beach bunnies being wooed by seashells singing elegant choruses Little viola hidden in the orchestra, how I love to pretend the sounds you make are flowers that slowly encircle the band. That curl around each note that’s played. The audience charmed by the floating garden of music giddily pick musical floral bouquets. and now it's time for the play… The actor in the center of the stage looks sadly at a teacup, reads a poem off the teacup and covers his face with a page of a poem on the teacup and sings, “What a terrible lie you told me. That you’re heart was mine to buy. All those feelings you implied, it all was just terrible lies…oh what a terrible lie..” Do you remember in the first verse when I told you about the seashells singing? Well if you wanna hear what it sounds like, you just have to listen in…. I will be a good boy and never tell you the bad things that I think about, the nasty little things I’ll keep them to myself… I will be a good boy and never tell you the bad things that I think about, the dirty little things I’ll keep them to myself…. I will be a good boy and never tell you the bad things that I think about, the sinister things I’ll keep them to myself….
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Before the laughter and the cheer disolves into his memory, taste of vodka on his lips, and thoughts of murder and doom, her eyes appeared to bloom, he wanted to touch them but was afraid she taken aback then what would he say? They walked to the garden in the park when it was empty after dark then spread out a blanket and laid down and a voice said, “No one else could hear.” He whispered in here ear, “Although I can’t sing it now, be still..some day baby I will.. sing you a love you song.” She rolled over and a kiss laid softly on his chin and said, “You know maybe there’s a chance that your feelings you’ve mistook or have presently overlooked… You say you don’t love me, but yet perhaps you just forget that you do.” He said that, “I love you please believe the only matter of concern is that your love will oneday fade. If that should happen I would die, and that’s the reason why I know I can’t sing it now but be still cos some day baby I will sing you a love you song….” She said, “How could you question when the root of my affection is so plain and obvious? It grew from the overwhelming pleasure of just being near you and now bring in doubts and they are smothering our love!”
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Honeymoon in San Francisco, what a grand idea. We’ll rent a room in a four-star hotel We’ll spend the whole time drunk on champagne and lime We’ll never feel the need to get out of bed, though on occasion we’ll charter a boat sail off to a distant island Once there we’ll take off our shoes and relax beneath the sun We won’t care if we lose our minds We won’t care if we live or die We’ll spend the whole time drunk on champagne and lime We won’t care if we lose our minds
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Cutie Pie 02:19
You are my cutie pie, my cutie pie, yes you are You are my cutie pie, my cutie pie, yes you are You’ll be my cutie pie until the day I die I hope that’s a long time, cause I dont wanna die You are my cutie pie, my cutie pie, yes you are You are my cutie pie, my cutie pie, yes you are You’ll be my cutie pie until the day I die I hope that’s a long time, cause I dont wanna die and live without my cutie pie
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Panda Bear 04:48
I’d go down on you if that would make you happy my panda bear my panda bear please stop bombing my lullabies to pieces my panda bear my panda bear you don't understand what the morning does to me in the poison daylight I can hear shadows crawling over everything I’ll go down on you if that would make you happy my panda bear my panda bear you don't understand what the morning does to me in the poison daylight I can hear shadows crawling over everything
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I wanna know how you feel I wanna know won’t you please please tell me so tell me so, tell me so I’ll know to bring us closer cause thats all I want to do to bring me closer to you to you me closer to you bring me closer to you I want to know how you feel How am I to know if you don’t tell me so tell me so, tell me so cause I sometimes get the impression that for me you no longer care please let me know if our romance is over if you no longer love me, i should know In the shower and on the bus At the cafe in the office I just can’t get my mind off of it You never say a word, so I have to say them for you Please tell me if I’m just insecure I need to know how you feel How am I to know if you don’t tell me so tell me so, tell me so?
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I’ve lost, and don’t remember what I saw in you Your charms have become less charming Your sweetness decreases everyday My dear darling, I’ve forgotten what I saw in you. Now I’m lost, I don’t know a gentle way to say that our life together is over and its best that you find someone new because my darling, I’ve forgotten what I saw in you. I seem to recall some vague memory of feeling happy, when we were young and in love. But that was a long time ago. Now I’m lost, Never in a million years what I have dreamt that about you I’d become indifferent. But sweetheart, incredibly it’s true…. that your cutie pie has forgotten what he saw in you. Please don’t think that I’m being impulsive or careless and that I’m not miserable too, but I just can’t continue this lie I’m lost. I wish this had a happy ending I wish there was something I could do But, my darling, I’ve forgotten what I saw in you. I’ve forgotten what I saw in you.
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I love you completely. Please I don’t want you to go, though are not content here with me, and you feel you must go. How could I lose you so fast? How come our love did not last? How come I waited my whole lonely life for you, just for you to leave me lonely too? I love you completely My dear, I wanted you to know, throughout this big world nobody else has loved someone so. I tried to live a life of beauty I tried to love you truly I tried to hold in my arms, but you slipped right through me. I never knew venus to be so moody. I love you I tried to live a life of beauty I tried to love you truly I tried to hold in my arms, but you slipped right through me. I never knew venus to be so moody. I love you completely. Please I don’t want you to go, though are not content here with me, and you feel you must go, that you must go.. Oh please, don’t go!
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Look who’s talking to their shadow like one who hasn’t got a friend Like somebody with a broken heart that is never gonna mend Look who’s walking through the night in the rain like one who’s under a spell Like somebody with a lot on their mind, but no one to tell Everyone you see seems so happy and carefree They’ve found someone to love, but you are alone Look who’s flipping through the photographs of those happier days Only losing something beautiful could make a person feel this way Everyone you see seems so happy and carefree They’ve found someone to love, but you are alone Look who’s talking to their shadow like one who hasn’t got a friend Like somebody with a broken heart that is never gonna mend…
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Someone’s in love with someone who doesn’t love them back their body’s like a hollow room They carry around an empty feeling wherever they go, wherever they go When one is crying over someone who doesn’t even care, their body’s like an empty tomb They carry around a desperate feeling wherever they go, wherever they go their in a hollow room.. A hollow room. All the devils in the world couldn’t think up a more painful thing to be in love with someone who doesn’t love you back.
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It’s easy to sleep when you’re dead but you’re unable to touch your loved ones, give them kisses or see them smile at you It’s easy to sleep when you’re dead but you give up your whole life’s work and you can’t reverse the bad things that you did While alive you still have hope that when you die you are dead and you know for sure if it’s better, if it’s better, if it’s better I hope it’s better It’s easy to sleep when you’re dead Though you can’t feel the warmth of summer, smell the flowers of spring, or drink cider in the fall It’s easy to sleep when you’re dead though it’s too late to say the words you wanted them to hear when you didn’t have the nerve. You get to spend eternity thinking about your life. Think of all the time that is. Eternity is forever, is forever, is forever. What will I do forever? At this time there is nothing you can change. You can only sit and watch and hope they understand It’s easy to sleep when you’re dead. Cause there isn’t anything else to do but sleep. I feel sorry for the dead.

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released January 1, 1998

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