Odious Odense-Stephin Merritt

[ti:Odious Odense] [ar:Stephin Merritt] [al:My Life As A Fairy Tale] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Odious Odense - Stephin Merritt [00:08.26]Odious Odense [00:09.09] [00:09.97]City of my birth [00:12.02]Happy that day when ya [00:13.93]Vanish from the earth [00:15.43] [00:16.00]Me for Copenhagen [00:16.99] [00:17.84]Me for Greece and Rome [00:19.75]Every day's an adventure [00:21.71]When you're not home [00:23.39]And in a thousand years from today [00:26.96]Americans will come to play [00:29.93]In giant flying metal birds to [00:33.89]View our beauteous antiques [00:36.87] [00:37.38]And hear some fearsome German words [00:40.06] [00:41.05]And tour all Europe in two weeks [00:42.96]A marble marvel ev'ry hour [00:45.54] [00:46.64]A stunning country ev'ry day [00:49.33] [00:50.41]They'll lope up Copenhagen's tower [00:53.17] [00:54.36]But they will never pay for [00:55.98]Odious Odense [00:57.75]City of my birth [00:59.73]Happy that day when ya [01:01.64]Vanish from the earth [01:03.24] [01:03.75]Me for Copenhagen [01:05.56]Me for Greece and Rome [01:07.52]Every day's an adventure [01:09.43]When you're not home [01:10.74]And as a new spring dawns [01:12.72]Hail to thee the muse of our new century [01:16.86]She wears a Garibaldi hat [01:19.91] [01:21.15]Yet cares for Aristophanes [01:23.80] [01:24.83]Part artist part aristocrat [01:27.44] [01:28.47]And lover of cacophonies [01:30.66]She telegraphs her laughter [01:31.89]From her rococo locomotive [01:36.83] [01:38.08]Well might some write that she is dumb [01:40.63] [01:41.99]But she would never live in [01:43.82]Odious Odense [01:44.49] [01:45.36]City of my birth [01:47.36]Happy that day when ya [01:49.19]Vanish from the earth [01:51.21]Me for Copenhagen [01:53.04]Me for Greece and Rome [01:55.03]Every day's an adventure [01:56.91]When you're not home