Toyah - Ophelia's Shadow lyrics

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Gunn/Willcox/Geballe/Beavis)<br />

She takes the night train<br />

With her bible of dreams<br />

A suitcase pretty pink<br />

A cassette of fresh screams<br />

Her treasures decompose<br />

Her treasures decay<br />

This is the Gospel<br />

In the garden of delights<br />

Ophelia can pretend<br />

To be a priestess or a femme fatale<br />

But Ophelia can't escape her shadow<br />

A little purse of promises<br />

With which to elope<br />

A butterfly net and a killing jar<br />

To silence all her hopes<br />

Ophelia's shadow<br />

Is haunting the humans<br />

Ambushed by ghosts<br />

And other aspects of her lonely heart<br />

This is the Gospel<br />

In the garden of delights<br />

Ophelia is Joan's, burning body<br />

A little purse of promises<br />

With which to elope<br />

A butterfly net and a killing jar<br />

To silence all her hopes<br />

Can't escape her shadow<br />

Nor the givers of advice<br />

Or the queue of emotional debts<br />

Nor the virtues nor the vice<br />

Sowing the seeds<br />

Of the never never tree<br />

This is the Gospel<br />

In the garden of delights<br />

Oh Ophelia<br />

Come Ophelia<br />

Sweet Ophelia<br />

Oh Ophelia can't escape her shadow<br />

Dancing in their discos<br />

Talking down their telephones<br />

Eating in their restaurants<br />

Visiting their homes<br />

Trying on their clothes<br />

Wearing their Skin And Bones<br />

Ophelia<br />

Ophelia<br />

Come Ophelia<br />

We decompose<br />

Ophelia<br />

Come Ophelia<br />

Lets decay<br />

Lets decay<br />

Lets decay