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| album: |
Skylarking |
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| year: |
1986 |
| written
by: |
Andy Partridge |
| length: |
2 minutes 50 seconds |
Ballet for a Rainy Day
Orange and lemon
Raincoats roll and tumble
Together, just liked fruit tipped from a tray.
Pineapple wet heads
Watch new hairdos crumble
As scenery sunlight shifts away.
 Ballet
for a rainy day -
Silent film of melting miracle play
Apples and cherries
Are varnished in water,
Despite striped awning's bright dismay.
I push my paintbrush
To conjure a new world,
While this one is slowly washed away.
Ballet for a rainy day -
Silent film of melting miracle play -
Dancing out there through my window
To the backdrop of a slow descending grey.
When it rains, it rains
All the colors in my paintbox.
When it rains, it rains
Tickets for the front row seats
Up on the rooftops.
Orange and lemon
Raincoats roll and tumble.
Apples and cherries
Together, dropped in diamond disarray.
Ballet for a rainy day -
Silent film of melting miracle play -
Dancing out there through my window
Behind the curtain, silver falling -
Ballet for a rainy day -
Silent film of melting miracle play -
Dancing out there through my window
To the backdrop of a slow descending grey.
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