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The Spellbound Traveler Loses all Possession

from SPELLS by The Light Switches

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The sun shines as houseboats cast black shadows
and reflections of bicycles and heroine
the window’s cracked to let the summer in
I wonder what it’s like to winter here

In hindsight I'd met a girl I'd like to winter with
with blue eyes and carnival from Rio on a black shirt
that contrasts her youthly figure
like a flower that is blooming in a graveyard

but tomorrow I'll be leaving on a train
good-bye ms. Amsterdam
I'll probably place your picture in some book
with other photographs
to remind me every time that I should look
and maybe realizeall the precious times
that I have left behind

The bream swim in the sad valtava river
the moon shines up above the mala strana
stare mesto is a clock on grandma’s piano
and I don’t know how I should know which way to go

The ghost tour leads through the crooked corridors
where I learn the twist of fate at every turn
I wind up at a bar that’s called Marquis de Sade
A stranger asks me if I believe in God

Although tomorrow I'll be leaving on a train
my love of course I do
how else would we be able to explain tomorrow’s sunrise
through the starry stain glassed splendor of your eyes that make me realize
All the precious times that we all leave behind

There’s witches in the pine forests of Austria
the snow falls on the mountaintops of Switzerland
the wind blows a whisper through a widow’s veil
I’m dreaming an absent minded fairy tale

There’s angels in the olive groves of Italy
they won’t protect me
from the English girl that’s eyeing me
She led me to the colored boats beached by the sea
we listened to a thief play gypsy melodies

He said there’s a war in the east,
there’s a war in the west
there’s an orphan in an ally in a wedding dress
where a junky sings into a megaphone
the minarets tremble and the temples moan
he said “love is an Indian death,”
he said “love is a poor girls breast”
he said “love ain’t no spoken word,”
he said “love is a humming bird”

but tomorrow I’ll be leaving on a train right out of Italy
I have a friend who’s little brother lives in Spain
in Barcelona
but for now let’s keep our destinations in disguise
so we don’t realize
All the precious time that we all leave behind

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from SPELLS, released March 18, 2011
Guitars/Vox: Michael Musika, Drums/rattles/ Tuba: Jesse Olsen. Piano: Eric Kuhn, Bass: Matt Adams. Harmonium/ Singing: Indianna Hale. Singing/ Gypsy Violin: Dina Maccabee. Clarinet: Mike Perlmutter

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1. Girl group for the living and the dead. 2. Characterized by layered imagery, and internal rhyme. 3. Your soundtrack to evade capture by the police.

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