When the Curious Girl Realizes She's Under Glass

Album: Fevers and Mirrors (2000)
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  • Tomorrow when I wake up I'm finding my brother
    And making him take me back down to the water
    That lake where we sailed and laughed with our father
    I will not desert him, I will not desert him

    No matter how I may wish for a coffin so clean
    Or these trees to undress all their leaves onto me
    I put my face in the dirt and then finally I see
    The sky that has been avoiding me

    (You shine)
    (Cool)
    (Know who I am?)
    That is exactly how I feel
    This looks like "Blues 101"

    I started this letter, I'm going to send it to Ruba
    It will be blessed by her eyes on the gulf coast of Florida
    With her feet in the sand and one hand on her swimsuit
    She will recite the prayer of my pen

    Saying, "Time take us forward, relief from this longing"
    "They can land that plane on my heart, I don't care"
    "Just give me November, the warmth of a whisper"
    "In the freezing darkness of my room""

    But no matter what I would do in an attempt to replace
    All the pills that I take trying to balance my brain
    I have seen the curious girl with that look on her face
    So surprised she stares out from her display case Writer/s: Conor Oberst
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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