Prefab Sprout
Prefab Sprout - The Glass Slipper lyrics
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She slipped and grazed Her perfect wings On the frosted surface of his Misogyny Later at home Paint toenails blue The colour seems to suit her mood as She imagines you But when he comes, his hands are cold His imagination puerile He simply won't be told Come to me, becomes routine Up the garden path Love and care, stand over there Looking for a job The other boys were calling from the bar and the slot machines The king in peagreen rugby shirt and she his kitchen queen I have the heels of the glass slipper (?) dance till my sandal's back snaps We've sad wings A cage is a lonely thing my love The sky's so thoroughly As you are everything to me Change your name Let it become the same my love Would a rose smell sweet Plucked and planted in the street Just like Joyce Love has no single voice my love While she may scream out loud She's only one in such a crowd One more guise I'm changing before your eyes my love Don't write me off too soon my love Look it's snowing And the sky is bitter blue Said it's snowing And I am going for a walk These sad wings A cage is an awful thing my love Damn sleighbells peal And silver heels refract her light, and I'll pass by Well trained dogs throw and fetch Beck and call, hide and seek Is that all? She'll be the first to speak While he thinks this is something His wooden face His ruddy cheeks Overdressed or wordly expressed So (?) he speaks (?) poem A perfect hour Deep down through reservoir Somewhere in the dark His queen his belle Decides she'll stay Despite the circumstances And the every day