Neko Case - Duchess lyrics

It's your bicycle bells and
Your Rembrandt swells
Your children live and still breathing
It's your look of loss
When you're coming across
Makes me feel like a
Thief when you're bleeding

Duchess, Duchess
Light up your candles for me
Duchess, Duchess, Duchess
Put all the love back in me

It's the Persian sea running
Through your veins
You shed your names with the seasons
Still they all return with their last remains
And they lay them before you like reasons

It's your shimmering dress, it says no
It says yes
It says, I've nothing left for concealing
It's your shiftless flesh and
Your old girl's grace
It's your young girl's face
That I'm breathing

Duchess, Duchess
Light up your candles for me
Duchess, Duchess, Duchess
Put all the love back in me

I'm lying, she is crying