The Lonely Doll-Cass McCombs

[ti:The Lonely Doll] [ar:Cass McCombs] [al:Wit's End] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Lonely Doll - Cass McCombs [00:30.20]In tribute to all things petite [00:34.24] [00:35.90]Pretty and sweet [00:38.10] [00:39.56]The Lonely Doll [00:41.65] [00:44.88]This verse I offer and greet [00:48.82] [00:49.72]In desire to replete [00:52.27] [00:53.34]The Lonely Doll [00:56.07] [00:59.12]A portrait painted from truth [01:03.19] [01:04.25]But imagined to soothe [01:06.91] [01:08.16]The Lonely Doll [01:10.58] [01:13.62]For Beauty eternal in youth [01:17.67] [01:18.24]Loves pity compassion and ruth [01:21.39] [01:22.58]The Lonely Doll [01:25.03] [01:27.77]I stumbled out of the saloon [01:32.00] [01:33.30]An evening last June [01:35.93] [01:37.30]The Lonely Doll [01:39.16] [01:42.43]And heard a distant mournful tune [01:46.79] [01:47.30]Under the dyad moon [01:50.28] [01:51.39]The Lonely Doll [01:53.77] [01:56.84]My Soul though with wine I did douse [02:01.07] [02:01.71]The song did arouse [02:04.42] [02:05.55]The Lonely Doll [02:08.09] [02:10.96]I followed a drunken louse [02:14.94] [02:15.86]Unto a cardboard house [02:18.70] [02:19.71]The Lonely Doll [02:22.17] [02:25.43]And through the window to see [02:29.18] [02:30.18]A doll before me [02:32.74] [02:33.96]The Lonely Doll [02:36.36] [02:39.49]Singing to the mirror was she- [02:43.39] [02:44.46]Was it a plea [02:47.23] [02:48.27]The Lonely Doll [02:50.66] [02:53.61]Her room was all dresses and bows [02:57.76] [02:58.54]For a doll needs her clothes [03:01.37] [03:02.44]The Lonely Doll [03:05.07] [03:07.77]She leaned in to breathe from a rose [03:11.96] [03:12.58]And stood on her tippy-toes [03:15.41] [03:16.80]The Lonely Doll [03:19.35] [03:21.74]With a brush made of jade and pearl [03:26.09] [03:26.95]She straightened her blonde curl [03:30.43] [03:31.16]The Lonely Doll [03:33.18] [03:36.31]I saw the sad eyes of a girl [03:40.41] [03:41.43]Under teardrops aswirl [03:44.09] [03:45.19]The Lonely Doll [03:47.70] [03:50.66]She went to her canopied bed [03:54.70] [03:55.78]And laid down her head [03:58.38] [03:59.50]The Lonely Doll [04:01.80] [04:04.64]She picked up her sheep-doll and said [04:08.81] [04:09.68]Something with dread [04:12.52] [04:13.57]The Lonely Doll [04:16.12] [04:19.17]Though I was too drunk to make sense [04:22.95] [04:24.10]I felt her Essence [04:26.69] [04:27.77]The Lonely Doll [04:30.02] [04:33.18]And turned to leave this pretense [04:37.28] [04:37.94]For night black and immense [04:41.15] [04:41.99]The Lonely Doll [04:44.51] [04:47.11]I remember that singing doll [04:51.49] [04:52.52]And her grievous call [04:54.83] [04:56.18]The Lonely Doll [04:58.33] [05:01.35]As a little reminder to us all [05:06.74]Whose sadness wasn't so small [05:09.71] [05:10.67]The Lonely Doll