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Alec Ounsworth - Mo Beauty Modern Girl (...with scissors)

Contributors

  • ISRC:USEP40924001
  • Recorded:2009 Piety Street Studio
  •  ©2009 Anti Inc.
  • Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Synthesizer:Alec Ounsworth
  • Baritone Guitar:Matt Sutton
  • Drums:Stanton Moore
  • Bass Guitar:George Porter Jr.
  • Piano:Robert Walter
  • Baritone Saxophone:Steve Berlin

Lyrics

Oh, the light left the room,
Deborah, where did it go?
She said that she left home a Yankee with something to sell,
But the seas got dry somehow

There’s no such thing as grim weather out here,
You don’t have to trust me,
I know as I set up my circus tent, one week later,
To want to rip it down

She had the highest disease,
For which there’s never a cure,
At least that’s what she believes

Oh, the ambulance left her
In a heap next to a bar,
Like an ordinary citizen tied up in the trunk of a car,
Oh, but she don’t moan none

She just gets taller
As the trees find their way down,
And the bottom’s the top as I trade in my radio for something smaller,
Something I can fit into my pulse,

Oh, the highest disease,
For which there’s never a cure
At least that’s what she believes

And when the city gets rough,
She gets into her balloon,
Leaving all the old stuff,
Leaving only with,
All this useless beauty now,
All this useless beauty

Oh, the light left the room
Deborah, where did it go?
She said that she left home a Yankee with something to sell,
But the seas got dry somehow

There’s no such thing as grim weather out here,
You don’t have to trust me,
I know as I set up my circus tent, one week later,
To want to rip it down

All this useless beauty now,
All this useless beauty.