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Million Girls
03:07
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There’s a million girl in magazines
Those lipstick bathing beauty queens, uh huh
But you don’t see ‘em, do you dear?
And there’s a waitress with a sweet tattoo
She’s gorgeous and in love with you, uh huh
But you don’t really care
‘Cause you’re living in the age
Of me and all my stupid blunders
I found a palace in your bed
What a lonely reign
I sit upon this throne and wonder
Who is the subject at my steps?
Your friends keep trying to take you out
and show you what the world’s about, uh huh
But you don’t even try
And there’s the smartest girl who writes you letters
She’s love to get to know you better
But you can’t seem to find the time
‘Cause you’re swimming in the wake
Of a riptide love that pulled you under
And now you’re drifting out at sea
What a lonely reign
I sit upon my throne and wonder
What is the siren song I sing?
Now I’ll never be your queen
Rule your galaxy or be your everything
And someone’ll wear your ring
But it’s not me
No it’s not me
And still you’re living in the age
Of me and all my stupid blunders
I found a palace in your bed
What a lonely reign
I sit upon this throne and wonder
Who is the subject at my steps?
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2. |
Let's Begin
04:50
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Here’s the thing
there you go
you don’t see it but I know
You could be my lover
And all the fish
in the sea
they don’t mean a thing to me
‘Cause I don’t want no other
Handsome boys, pretty girls
there’s nobody in the world
who puts such silly thoughts in my head
You’re like butterflies, pizza pies
and the copper pennies in your eyes
are worth more than I could spend
So oh my dear, dear friend
Let’s begin
Here we are
just me and you
the only thing that I can do
is wish you were my lover
Days like this
I get by
until my feelings multiply
and you just pull me under
Rockstar boys, fashion girls
there’s nobody in the world
who keeps my starvin’ heart fed
You’re like ferris wheels, football fields
and heaven knows the way I feel
when you’re dancing through my head
So oh my dear, dear friend
Let’s begin
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Queen Hazel
03:31
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In the oldest of the mountains
where the fields of poppies grow
there’s a maiden there as fickle
as the wicked wind that blows
And it’s there that you can find her
but if you’re lucky then you won’t
‘Cause it’s many a fool’s lost all he knew
at old Queen Hazel’s throne
She’ll set her finest china
put her candies in your dish
and if you haven’t left by midnight
you’ll forever wish you did
They say her hair is made of sunlight
and her eye the purest blue
and she’ll live on forever off the thing she stole from you
They don’t know if they love her
she makes them feel insane
but they know they’d go to the ends of the earth
in old Queen Hazel’s name
They don’t know if it’s poison
they’ve never felt this way
but they know they’d go to the ends of the earth
in old Queen Hazel’s name
She’s set a trap for every man
that’s deep inside his brain
so that one taste of her sugar
leaves him begging for the kane
And he’ll do anything to find it
he will suffer any pain
he’ll chase down any dragon
just to be Queen Hazel’s slave
They don’t know if they love her
she makes them feel insane
but they know they’d go to the ends of the earth
in old Queen Hazel’s name
They don’t know if it’s poison
they’ve never felt this way
but they know they’d go to the ends of the earth
in old Queen Hazel’s name
Oh, oh
They don’t know if they love her
she makes them feel insane
but they know they’d go to the ends of the earth
in old Queen Hazel’s name
You can fall in love with lucy
you can marry Mary Jane
but you’ll only go to the ends of the earth
in old Queen Hazel’s name
Yeah you’ll only go to the ends of the earth
in old Queen Hazel’s name
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Beverly
05:50
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When your daily life is done
The hell of beige and grey is gone
And you’re set free
The holy blue upon the screen
Don’t it wash your body clean?
Oh, ain’t it sweet?
You will take your syrup down
You don’t sip
Do you Beverly?
You will take your syrup down
You don’t sip
Do you Beverly?
You will make thousand friends
But they won’t know you in the end
When they cut scene
And you will find a better man
But you can’t touch him where he stands
Upon the screen
You don’t feel those minutes pass
On the strip
Do you Beverly?
‘Cause you just take your syrup down
You don’t sip
Do you Beverly
Come on down to Rerun City
Where the boys are tall, the girls are pretty
Come on down to Rerun
Come on down to Rerun City
All aboard for Rerun City
It’s a sunny day in 1950
All aboard for Rerun
All aboard for Rerun City
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Soul Mines
02:52
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Here they come with their fine machines
Here they come with their shovels
Dynamite and the kerosene
They come to pick through the rubble
They don't dig for coal
Baby, they'll strike gold
They ain't looking for diamonds now
They come to mine your soul
There ain't anyplace that you can hide
Once your map is discovered
And they've been tracking you your whole damn life
They know you better than a lover
'Cause you're their ivory coast
You're the tragic host
Nobody's looking for diamonds now
They come to mine your soul
So let’s pour a glass of wine my friend
Sit and talk about the old times
The days of freedom seemed to have no end
Before we lost ‘em to the soul mines
Yeah let’s raise a toast
To ten years at most
Before the dawning of this brave new world
When they mine our souls
And when you’re dead and cold
You’ll still be bought and sold
You’ll live forever in a great big cloud
When they mine your soul
Yeah you’ll last longer than a diamond now
When they mine your soul
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Suffer
03:52
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I know you suffer
you suffer
and I know you worry
you worry about me
‘cause I talk to the others
I laugh with the others
and they know my number
and they all know my name
Here comes the rage
the jealous exchange
you’re so afraid to lose me
you push me away
you still can’t believe
that you are all I need
Baby don’t suffer, don’t suffer (x2)
My love is like a kingdom
and you’re the only king
the walls are tall, the gates are locked
the guards are on the mountaintops
and here inside it’s you and me
the other ships upon the sea keep passing by
but they are all you see
Here comes the cloud
the shadow of doubt
you’re not satisfied till you wipe them all out
you still can’t believe
that you’re everything to me
So baby don’t suffer, don’t suffer (x4)
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7. |
Where There's No You
03:54
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I’m going to get some air
and I don’t need a train to take me there
I’m going where the water’s blue
I’m going where there’s no you
I’m walking through a canyon range
these legs can take me miles and miles
away from your sweet face
Appalachia and the Rockies too
I’m going where there’s no you
Where there’s no you
Hello to the Great Divide
Hello to Caroline
Won’t stop till the borderline
California, here I come
I’m heading to the Garden State
wanna take the whole Atlantic in my arms and float away
I am swimming where the birds sing a different tune
I’m going where there’s no you
Where there’s no you
Hello to Mammoth Cave
Hello to the Everglades
Bring on the better days
Arkansas, how do you do?
Are you lonely too?
My darling, how’d I get this far?
See I’m halfway around the world
and I’m still wondering where you are
Well I can’t see what there is to do
so I keep going where there’s no you
where there’s no you
where there’s no you
I’m getting nowhere and that’s the truth
‘cause I keep going where there’s no you
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8. |
Treat Me Right
03:59
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I got myself a sweet love
And he knows to treat me right
Mm mmhmm
Oh yeah my baby knows to treat me right
He works upon the railroad
And he works there day and night
Mm mmhmm
And he don’t come home until the stars shine bright
Now I know that one sad day, y’all
The lord will call him up
Mm mmhmm
And I’ll stand alone with all my wasted love
Until then I got my sweet love
and he knows to treat me right
Mm mmhmm
Oh yeah my baby knows to treat me right
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Woolf
05:12
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London fog
the weight of god
gathers on
4 o’clock in the morning
Sun will rise
just in time
to strip and dive
or buy the flowers and host the party
You’re at your best
in your new blue dress
with the floppy hat and a cigarette
You hit ‘em hard with sparkling wit
and you write the books that scare your friends
Then you pack your bags and catch the train
just to move the pawns on your checkered brain
but the waves still break and sound the same
you can hear ‘em from the garden
In the morning
you are painting the sky
By the evening
you are wanting to die
All right
Richmond clouds
roam the downs
to think out loud
five o’clock in the evening
Sun will set
night’s wide net
the thought of it
sets your heart ablaze and beating
Set the type and you work the press
till the proofs are out and the letters sent
then you play the host to your friends and ghosts
till they tip their hats and take their coats
You build your room at great expense
from the finest rock on a crumbling cliff
so the long campaign on time begins
until you find your way back home
At the spring’s end
the birds are singing to you
But by the winter
they’ll only whisper the truth
Virginia, don’t you weep
you’re talking in your sleep again
‘bout all the same old ghosts
the men in overcoats
And when you take that leap
I hope the water’s deep and that
the river takes you in
and brings you home again
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Elle Cordova Los Angeles, California
Reina del Cid was the moniker of Elle Cordova until 2023. She is a singer-songwriter currently based in Los Angeles, CA.
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