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If you stare long enough at a single word - a name, for example - it can dissolve into a set of alien markings. Something similar can also happen with the name's owner. That’s what this song is about.
lyrics
Come to your senses Virginia, the water is warm.
The wine was expensive, Virginia, the year you were born.
Answer the doorbell, I’m ringing the doorbell
(I love you Virginia, I love you Virginia);
jump from the mantlepiece, sooner or later
I’ll have you Virginia, have you Virginia, I will.
Kissing the vicar, Virginia I see you I do.
You shimmer like glitter, Virginia, the vicar and you.
The stars are like studs in a heaven of leather
(I love you Virginia, I love you Virginia).
I’m under the moon and I’m over the weather;
I’ll have you Virginia, have you Virginia I will.
You’re vicious, Virginia, to treat me the way that you do.
Malicious, misleading Virginia I’m pleading with you.
My back is an altar so fall to your goddess
(I love you Virginia, I love you Virginia);
Tell her you’ll never go back on your promise:
I’ll have you Virginia, have you Virginia I will.
I’ll sink if I think of you little Virginia I fear;
I’ll brick up the windows and wait for you year after year.
My eyes are like mutton for crows to unbutton
(I love you Virginia, I love you Virginia).
Count to a thousand and all of a sudden
I’ll have you Virginia, have you Virginia I will...
Come to your senses Virginia, your eyes are like seas:
they're blue and they're grey and they’re speckled with fishermen’s pleas.
Railway decisions are knotted like ribbons of oxygen spilling from cracks in the rigging;
I love you Virginia my tender my tether;
I love you Virginia, I love you forever.
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released March 4, 2022
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