Decemberists Shiny Lyrics

Shiny Lyrics

By the bumper cars

In the pretty twining light

I may have gone too far

I may have gone too much, too long.

I'm a dull and witless boy



In the after-bars

Think I was sullied by a dream

In the killing jar

you and me at war, at arms, all falling in embrace



Tell me why you lied, and what it is you do to keep your eyes all shiny



A tawny gypsy girl

sleeping blanketed by stars

Beneath the tilt-a-whirl

where we were coyly caught alone

all fumbling with your blouse



Tell me why you lied, and what it is you do to keep your eyes all shiny



In the rollercoaster din

By the parachutes in saddle shoes you break your shin

But i have never seen two eyes so shiny



And the sullen beery swine,

try to tangle you in sullen beery balls of twine

Have they ever seen two eyes so shiny?



The boys in demin vests

smoking cigarettes between

their bootblack fingertips

sweetly tipsy be the half-light

the light and the half-light



Tell me why you lied and what it is you do to keep your eyes all shiny