Tulip(Undressed)-Jesca Hoop/Erika Wennerstrom

[ti:Tulip (Undressed)] [ar:Jesca Hoop] [al:Undress] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Tulip [Undressed] - Jesca Hoop [00:11.83]Ada my rarest bud from the desert valley [00:16.44] [00:16.97]Your hair of fire and skin of snow [00:19.71]Have coursed me to the heights of the desert mountains [00:23.95]In search of the cure for a rampant fever [00:28.14]Your beauty's power it plagues me now [00:30.64]I come and scour the land for the desert flower [00:35.50] [00:37.75]For beauty and perfume I'd stake my house and my lands [00:43.26]The gold is sleeping in the river [00:45.82]But the flower's in my hand [00:48.67]With a paler leaf and a broken petal [00:51.28]I'll paint the king and queen [00:54.33]And to the goldsmith with my flower [00:56.96]I'll buy your wedding ring [00:59.98]Tulip tulip with one word I'd a-buy [01:05.40]Oxen sheep and wheat and rye and land on the north seaside [01:10.92]Tulip tulip with one word I'd a-buy [01:16.24]The finest dresses man can buy and a pearl for to pay my bride [01:21.72] [01:28.23]Then with my rarest bowl to her father's garden [01:33.21]Like gold for lamb or wool for clam [01:36.02]I gave that man a bowl for his daughter Ada [01:40.09]Your heart is mine and it's mine forever [01:44.11]And she replied "My fate that lies on [01:46.95]'Yon horizon's tethered me to the sky" [01:51.60] [01:53.89]The match arranged and vows exchanged and the dove flew away [01:58.53] [01:59.10]The bells spilled out the hollow canyon on our wedding day [02:04.72]To me she gave her hand and to death do us part [02:10.32]But the bird will nest with one that she has promised her heart [02:15.31]Tulip tulip with one word I'd a-buy [02:21.37]The bed from which our sons will rise and the window where she cries [02:26.92]Tulip tulip with one word I'd a-buy [02:32.37]The next to catch the birds that fly from the window where she cries [02:37.69] [02:38.70]He reaches out and I withdraw [02:41.12]Spilling the flowering bribes from his paw [02:44.12]The broken petals climbing the walls [02:46.65]Stealing my oxygen no air at all [02:49.59]From the bed I hear him call [02:52.30]But I answer cooing when the night falls [02:55.14]The cotton sword is storming the hall [02:58.03]Cutting my vision to no sight at all [03:00.79]I tied the tulip around her neck like a red lead sinker [03:05.77]And blindfold and spin around and 'round and 'round [03:09.84]To the banks of the river [03:11.27]And then walk my true love into the rushing water [03:16.71]And by her long hair bleeding red [03:19.62]Hair-pulled my love there under until she drowned [03:27.15] [03:43.09]For beauty and perfume [03:45.23]I'd stake my house and my lands [03:48.04]My love is sleeping in the river [03:51.03]But the flower's in my hand [03:53.60]With a paler leaf and a broken petal [03:56.10]I'll keep her all to me [03:59.27]And to the river with my flower [04:02.22]I'll hear my true love sing [04:04.35]Your water is still in my friend ready to drown [04:10.46]Water water oh water my kin carry me out [04:15.41]This Eine River is mercy at last die as she laughs [04:20.45]For he's waiting with a dove's nest my true love [04:27.11]Tulip tulip with one word I'd a-buy [04:32.19]A veil that parted o'er my bride and the breath as my true love died [04:37.07] [04:37.59]Tulip tulip with one word I'd a-buy [04:43.06]A veil that parted o'er my bride and the blue from the bluest eye [04:48.44]Tulip tulip with one word I'd a-buy [04:53.70]A veil that parted o'er my bride and the breath as my true love died [04:59.14]Tulip tulip with one word I'd a-buy [05:04.46]A veil that parted o'er my bride and the breath as my true love died