This Lyric is: #127

TISSUE PAPER FLOWERS
Mollie Baxter
(c) 2001

Tissue paper flowers arranged in my window
On my hands I had a few spare hours
So I made a summer in a day
This morning it was raining
But now the sun is shining
And there’s no work tomorrow and so
Everything’s ok

Chorus:
Dung dung dung dayoh godayoh
Day lay lay dung a dayoh
Umbum bum dikada dum
Umbum bum dikada dum
Dung dung dung dayoh godayoh
Day lay lay dung a dayoh
Bum bum dikada dum

I have a friend called Lazy
She lives in the room above
Sometimes I hear her singing
When she thinks nobody else is home
She has her hair in beads and braids
When she walks sometimes it sounds like rain
We keep meaning to do my hair that way
But we never get round to it

Chorus

Sometimes I go to Samuel’s
Buy a coffee and sit for an hour or two
Writing things as the people pass outside
Something Lazy says she could never do
She says I’m self-contented
I try to tell her I’m just bad tempered
And not used to this people-thing just yet
There’s far too much catching up to do

Chorus into Bridge:

Throw your window open wide
See pavements grow slick with caught sunlight
If you stand just so you can see right through
Breathe it in and fall into the blue

Lazy’s sister Katy is counting her footsteps
On the pavement below
She’s been finding the price of things too high
Leaves a trail of sand wherever she goes
She says she’s wasting time
The grains are falling fast in the hourglass in her mind
I’m not sure if she really needs to find
A man to turn it for her

Chorus


[This message has been edited by blakeh (edited 09-01-2002).]