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The Widow Francis Colver

from Adelaide by Bad Luck City

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lyrics

The widow Frances Colver had been on the floor for days
In a small room above an abandoned cafe
Surrounded by torn farewell letters and empty bottles
Of cheap cabernet
She lay, weeping, like a stone
Cursed her weak heart, her brittle ankle bones (and)
Her late husband, James Colver
Who, while indulging peculiar cravings (had gone)
And left her on her own
Trapped in the squalor
Of a darkened parlor
Heiress to ashes
And this shell of a home
She was almost all alone
It was just her and that dog
Who hadn’t been fed
For Christ knows how long
And she couldn’t help but picture it burrowing
Through her skull and gorging on her brain
When drool was dripping from its fang
She couldn’t sleep

“Dear Jacob”, she wrote, “just a quick little note
From my death-floor, perched here, above South Quincy Road
I’ve been down for a while, what with the death and the trial
And this silence that’s crept in and stretched out for miles

But somewhere I read ‘Let the dead eat the dead’
And let us broken wrecks dance drunkenly at the edge
At the very end you are my one honest friend
Now I’ve got this reaper scratching at my window
And me, legs akimbo,
Armed only with a bottle and a frayed violin bow
There’s so much I want to say before this dog gets its way
But I’m tired and I’ve only the strength for
I’ve loved you so

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from Adelaide, released February 29, 2008

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