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Les Naufrages

You take control of having what you want around you And every blink of your eye can make an old man seem younger Than every single day in his life Before

Hey! I've lost everything Now I've gotta find a way out Hey! They keep asking me Where I was when it was burning There's no trying to explain They

A bird flew out of Lapland An eagle from the north east One wing ruffled the water And the other swept the sky Its tail skimmed the sea It flutters,

You slept in your overalls After the wrecking ball Bereft you of house and home And left you with sweet fuck-all So we got in your car With our kickabout

This cocoon, caught in Vesuvius' shadow Only the ashes remain And I waited there for you Why couldn't you? Here we lie waiting for something to startle

And here I dreamt I was a soldier And I marched the streets of Birkenau And I recall in spring The perfume that the air would bring To the indolent town

I'm a legionnaire Camel in disrepair Hoping for a Frigidaire To come passing by I am on reprieve Lacking my joie de vive Missing my gay Paris In this

They've come to find you, Odalisque As the light dies horribly On a fire escape you walk All rare and resolved to drop And when they find you, Odalisque

A bird flew out of Lapland An eagle from the North East One wing ruffled the water And the other swept the sky It's tail skimmed the sea It flutters