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cricket blue - angela carter lyrics

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when the woods were full of wolves, the girls tied back their hair
they covered up their hands because it gave away their age
and up and up the chimney went the smoke and the hot air
that made a column for the garden crows to navigate

when the coals were burning, when the onion let its smell
when the kettle boiled with the water from the well
a wolf came in to take a bride, who crawled beneath the bed inside
and hid beneath a cotton sheet that ‘came her wedding veil

the palm was married to the thumb; the motor, to the oil drum;
the metal hook forced its kiss in the cold mouth of a fish;
the sh-lls were married into sand; the farming girl, to farming hand
and made a sugar pulp from a purple sugar fig

when you and i were married, how the earthworms hung their heads!
the birds were screaming raw their throats above the wedding bed
and someone gave a violin, a melancholy wooden thing
that slept all day wrapped in a cloth, waiting to be held

- cricket blue lyrics

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