This is the second song added to the 2009 Columbia release of this album (“Le Flying Saucer Hat” was the first).
[Verse 1]
You're a certain kind of beggar at the top of the stairs
Get down to the bottom there, a new one there
I’ve seen you on the street trying to get it up
But no-one's putting change in your Dixie cup
[Chorus]
Everything I know is useless
Feeling if I don't know what to do next
Without a name or a place or a purpose
Everything I know is useless
Feeling if I don’t know what to do next
Without a name or a place or a purpose
[Bridge]
I walk near
"Hey gypsy pirate
Know why you're here?
I can keep a secret
I can keep a secret
I can keep a secret
I can keep a secret
I can keep a secret
I can keep"
[Chorus]
Everything I know is useless
Feeling if I don't know what to do next
Without a name or a place or a purpose
[Outro]
The time is now is the
Time is now is the time is now
Is the time is now is
The time is now is the time
Without a name or a place or a purpose
Dixie Gypsy was written by Patrick Wimberly & Caroline Polachek & Aaron Pfenning.
Dixie Gypsy was produced by Chris Taylor & Britt Myers.
Chairlift released Dixie Gypsy on Tue Jul 22 2008.
Singer and co-writer Caroline Polachek on this song:
This is the other new track on the re-release of Does You Inspire You. Except it’s not new ‘cause Aaron started writing it ages ago. This song is about meeting a free, nomadic person whose very presence shatters your structured idea of how life s...