The Gymnast, High Above The Ground lyrics

Song information

Artist: The Decemberists
Album: Her Majesty

Lyrics

The gymnast, high above the ground
Limbers up and falls, tender, down
Ankles splayed and all tied
The gymnast long has arrived
Lazy, your long sister lays
Waiting out this long light brigade
Prayed for snow a long time
And, lazy, it long has arrived

Through the tarlatan holes
You've been slipping, been slipping away
La de dum dum
And the weather will hold-
It's been ever so, ever so gray
La de dum dum

And here as we're coming down
We're sounding out: it's a terrible, terrible tide
As it lights upon your eye

But there on the motorway, reeks of marmalade
It's a chemical, chemical kind
As it lights upon your eye
Lights upon your eye

The bosun calls upon the quay
Compass gone, he long has lost his way
To lighthouse shine, to calm tide
The bosun long has arrived

Through the tarlatan holes
You've been slipping, been slipping away
La de dum dum
And the weather will hold-
It's been ever so, ever so gray
La de dum dum

But here as we're coming down
We're sounding out: it's a terrible, terrible tide
As it lights upon your eye

But there on the motorway, reeks of marmalade
It's a chemical, chemical kind
As it lights upon your eye
Lights upon your eye

April marches on
April marches on
April marches on
April marches on

[from http://lyrics.doheth.co.uk]

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