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Gabriella

from Big Amazing Songs by Jeff Harms

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You're so goddamned dainty
You stare and you stare
But you won't let me in your heart
No you won't let me in your heart
Oh you're a fine lonely soul
cast in hand-painted porcelain
But it won't let me in your heart
But you won't let me in your heart
Your dull painted eyes how they chill me to the bone
I've seen all ten designs but each one makes me feel more alone
Can't you hear in they're cries the absence
of a soul, there in the toy store, in the aisles just beginning to moan
Do you believe in ten years they'll be sleeping all alone
Calling off the prom, no more lies over the phone
Gabriella don't you know,
sometimes it's best if you just play alone.
You have dominion over their minds
they can't be free over the drone
of the cash registers and the compact mirrors slamming to a
rhythm all their own.
You won't be happy till their tiny plastic feelings melt down
into your heart becoming flesh and bone
Gabriella don't you know,
sometimes it's best if you just sleep alone.
You're a wealth made from rags
From nothing into something grand.
You promise them they'll live in castles
wooing men from far off lands
They raise you up like a god onto their
tiny little stands, till their faith
like a rock is ground up turning into sand
They scour the earth for the things they saw
In your tiny little hands.
See they're old enough to dream,
but too young to understand
what you're doing to them.
Gabriella, was it all part of your plan?
Gabriella, was it all part of your plan?
I need a tinier and tinier woman.
I need a tinier and tinier woman.

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from Big Amazing Songs, released July 4, 2004

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