Palaces of Montezuma

Album: Grinderman 2 (2010)
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  • Psychedelic invocations
    Of Mata Hari at the station
    I give to you
    A Java princess of Hindu Birth
    A woman of flesh, a child of the earth
    I give to you
    The hanging gardens of Babylon
    Miles Davis, the black unicorn
    I give to you
    The palaces of Montezuma
    And the gardens of Akbar's tomb
    I give to you
    The Spider Goddess and the Needle Boy
    The slave-dwarves they employ
    I give to you
    A custard-coloured super-dream
    Of Ali McGraw and Steve McQueen
    I give to you

    C'mon baby, let's get out of the cold
    And gimme, gimmme, gimme your precious love for me to hold

    The epic of Gilgamesh
    A pretty little black A-line dress
    I give to you
    The spinal cord of JFK
    Wrapped in Marilyn Monroe's negligee
    I give to you
    I want nothing in return
    Just the softest little breathless word
    I ask of you
    A word contained in a grain of sand
    That can barely walk, can't even stand
    I ask of you

    C'mon baby, let's get out of the cold
    And gimme, gimme, gimme your precious love for me to hold
    C'mon baby, come out of the cold
    And gimme, gimme, gimme your precious love for me to hold

    C'mon
    Yeah c'mon
    Yeah c'mon
    Yeah c'mon
    Yeah c'mon
    Yeah c'mon
    Yeah c'mon
    Yeah c'mon
    Yeah c'mon
    Yeah c'mon
    Give it to me
    Give it to me
    Yeah give it to me Writer/s: James Sclavunos, Martyn Casey, Nicholas Cave, Warren Ellis
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Mute Song Limited, Sentric Music
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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