10000 Maniacs Katrina`s Fair Lyrics

Katrina`s Fair Lyrics

[ lyrics: Natalie Merchant/music: Robert Buck ]

greta`s cedar hope chest 
is full of pamphlets 
glass shelves of romantic vignettes 
a journal laced with sedimentary prose 

norma gathers and collects vintage photoplays 
hair combs valentines 

lillian allows the animals to scratch 
leather crack 
mail collect in the box coatings peel 

agnes veiled cathedral dweller 
smiles with benevolent pain 
it`s katrina`s fair tuesday morning 
as she with caution unlatches the flat door 
she alone cascades to the basement 
careful not to spoil her 
calico printed pinafore 
composite traits mannerists 
all others dissipate 

margauritte vigilant dwells upon frigid casements 

sarah`s thoughts in the velocity 
accusations always pierce and pass 

clara abandons her passions for distastes 
miss lenora p. sinclair 
early for coffee in the pool 
"i`m resituating all your words" 
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sylvia keeps beasts in jars labeled 
kingdom phylum class order family genus species