Amanda Palmer - Olly Olly Oxen Free lyrics

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SoYou wantedThat's what you get for wantingYou got itThat's what you get for gettingForgottenYou're gardening a rotting bedOf raygun-era iconsSoLet's start itLet's start itFrom the minute you felt itYou felt it like a prisonA panic, you felt itLike that coffee sceneFrom Moscow on the HudsonSoBe honestIt's not as if you're happy about itIt's not as if you're animatronicIt's not as if you couldn'tCry out any time you wantedOlly olly oxen freeAll the people you will never beOlly olly oxen freeOlly olly olly ollyOlly olly olly ollyFateYou call itYou color itThe color you want itYou carpet itThat's awful convenientYou paint yourself a nice white roomWith stripes and matching curtainsSoYou forfeitYou cannot build a river across itYou cannot hold your own heart hostageYou do not have the strengthTo gag yourself in every closetThe wrong place, wrong mindTiming's always badYou're such a sad caseMisplaced renaissanceInventor of a worldwideHeartbreak, taking it in stride'Cause you're an expertAren't you?Aren't you just a dime a dozen?Murderous monosyllabic moronWith no sense of purposeWorking on your songs all nightTo justify your worthlessnessTo anyone who's watchingIf they only saw your alter egosPretty in the shop windowsWhere you got auctioned hours agoOlly olly oxen freeAll the people you will never beOlly olly oxen freeOlly olly olly ollyHigher than the king canSee no evil, hear no evilCapture me and throw the keySee no evil, hear no evilCapture me and throw the key awayThrow the key awaySoIt's overYou're lying in a coffin of clutterYour father and your sister, your drummerAre sorting through your Soft Cell tapesAnd lifesaver collection, and you wonderYou wonder if you could've done betterYou wonder if you should've surrenderedBefore you learned thatNobody actually wants a fucking martyrDidn't you, didn't you, didn'tDidn't you see?Didn't you, didn't you, didn'tDidn't you see?Didn't you, didn't you, you didn'tYou didn't see meDidn't you, didn't you, you didn'tYou didn't see meOlly olly oxen freeAll the people you will never beOlly olly oxen freeOlly olly olly ollyHigher than the king canSee no evil, hear no evilCapture me and throw the keySee no evil, hear no evilCapture me and throw the key awayThrow the key awayThrow the key away