The Lonely Doll-Cass McCombs

[00:30.00]In tribute to all things petite [00:35.72]pretty and sweet [00:39.44]The lonely doll [00:44.77]This verse I offer and greet [00:49.63]In desire to replete [00:53.55]The lonely doll [00:58.82]A portrait painted from truth [01:04.33]But imagined to soothe [01:08.33]The lonely doll [01:13.39]For Beauty, eternal in youth [01:18.10]Loves pity, compassion, and ruth [01:22.52]The lonely doll [01:27.59]I stumbled out of the saloon [01:33.21]An evening last June [01:37.18]The lonely doll [01:42.33]And heard a distant, mournful tune [01:47.12]Under the dyad moon [01:51.43]The lonely doll [01:56.32]My Soul, though with wine I did douse [02:01.66]The song did arouse [02:05.65]The lonely doll [02:10.83]I followed, a drunken louse [02:15.65]Unto a cardboard house [02:19.73]The lonely doll [02:25.21]And through the window to see [02:30.18]A doll before me [02:33.99]The lonely doll [02:39.27]Singing to the mirror was she [02:44.66]Was it a plea [02:48.28]The lonely doll [02:53.40]Her room was all dresses and bows [02:58.44]For a doll needs her clothes [03:02.52]The lonely doll [03:07.71]She leaned in to breathe from a rose [03:12.48]And stood on her tippy-toes [03:16.81]The lonely doll [03:21.58]With a brush made of jade and pearl [03:27.26]She straightened her blonde curl [03:31.90]The lonely doll [03:36.60]I saw the sad eyes of a girl [03:41.50]Under teardrops, aswirl [03:45.21]The lonely doll [03:50.27]She went to her canopied bed [03:55.92]And laid down her head [03:59.62]The lonely doll [04:04.52]She picked up her sheep-doll and said [04:10.20]Something with dread [04:13.82]The lonely doll [04:18.86]Though I was too drunk to make sense [04:24.50]I felt her Essence [04:27.75]The lonely doll [04:33.50]And turned to leave this pretense [04:37.76]For night, black and immense [04:41.92]The lonely doll [04:46.88]I remember that singing doll [04:52.46]And her grievous call [04:56.42]The lonely doll [05:01.19]As a little reminder to us all [05:06.53]Whose sadness wasn' t so small [05:10.65]The lonely doll