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This is part of a (nearly) gapless album. Feel free to download it as a standalone track, but to hear it in context you know it makes more sense to download the whole thing...

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lyrics

Saffron (for butchershop septet)

Words and music by David Lawrie

You are a rare delicacy.
All that you are turns into me:
Circus side-show freak on the street,
Padlocks and chains strangling me.

Break them apart.
Break them apart.
Break them apart.

With one eye closed, the other one filled with sand,
They're looking for you, they're looking for me.
They're looking for my brother.

With one eye closed, the other one filled with sand,
They're looking for you, they'll never get me.
They'll never steal my brother.

You are a rare delicacy,
For sale, you're mine to eat.
Syrup-sweet taste when you're feeling the heat,
Here's a piggy back ride to rest your feet.

I'll tell you when I feel hunger the most;
It's when this barnacle uses me as a host.
A crying shame, but all the same,
There's a thousand like you;
Time and again.

With one eye closed, the other one filled with sand,
They're looking for you, they're looking for me.
They're looking for my brother.

With one eye closed, the other one filled with sand,
They're looking for you, they'll never find me.
They'll never steal my brother.

With one eye closed, the other one filled with sand,
They're looking for you, they're looking for me.
They're looking for each other.

With one eye closed, the other one made from clay,
They're fumbling around, they're tumbling down,
They'll never find each other.

You are a rare delicacy.
All that you are turns into me:
Circus side-show freak on the street,
Padlocks and chains strangling me.

You are a rare delicacy.
All that you are turns into me.

Break it away.
Break it away.
Break it away.

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from Liars, Charlatans, Jinxmongers (for voice and accompaniment), released September 23, 2008

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