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Degouve de Nuncques, Parc de Milan, 1895

THE VILLAGE IN THE MORNING [Merritt/Robert Scott]
by the magnetic fields

Outside the rain is coming down   Inside it’s warm and dry
You’ll never find a cab uptown so why not stay the night?
Why don’t you call in sick tomorrow let’s sleep the day away
I’ve got pyjamas you can borrow let’s take a holiday.

You can’t leave the village in the morning
when the radio writes poetry for avenue pi
You get tangled in the wheels of old queen river
and you can’t find the breath to whisper goodbye
Whisper goodbye.

Why don’t you stay until the weekend  It should clear up by then
As your resolve begins to weaken we’ll become such good friends
And you could stay until the summer and we can sleep through spring
And I can telephone my drummer and have her get your things.

Why don’t you stay until we’re old and fall in love with life
Why don’t you stay until we’re ghosts  We’ll only seem to die.