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Just A Curio
Anne Sofie von Otter
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Elvis Costello
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In the cold pale sunlight that was slanting down I spied
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Frost reflecting on the glass and in the air outside
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Fond relations mouthing words of love and tragedy
Though it's cold there's vapour rising from a moving stream
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In a narrow shallow bed of fine inanimate starch
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Where her long hair tumbled once upon her graceful arch
Lace hung on the counters and the walnut cabinets
Teeth were chattering like schoolgirls clicking castanets
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There will be no light to guide as you ascend the stairs
There may be a candle as you kneel and say your prayers
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Through the window wide and open peep the spark from me
Just the letter T and its most dread companion B
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How in heaven hadn't it been conquered long ago?
How did it come back again? It's just a curio
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