mewithoutYou
mewithoutYou
mewithoutYou & Aimee Wilson
mewithoutYou
mewithoutYou &
mewithoutYou &
mewithoutYou & Hayley Williams
mewithoutYou
mewithoutYou
mewithoutYou & Aimee Wilson
mewithoutYou & Daniel Smith & Hayley Williams
This song serves to describe the state of the circus after (most of) the animals escaped in the train crash. Without the animals there to entertain the audience, it has essentially turned into a sideshow display of worn-out acts, swindles, tricks, and hoaxes (“dulled” sharpshooters, paying to watch...
Stitch up the nets but the patch won't stay
As the nail beds rest in the calico hay
The Fiji Mermaid dressed in macrame wading
Road in the fork and a bend In the spoon
Turn cut short as a shadow at noon
Melting like wax as that once full moon's, waning
Ersatz acts an insufferable bore
'Sharp Shots' dull as a harlequin's sword
When doing as you please doesn't please you anymore
Ahh, ah ah, ah ah, ah ah
Ahh, ah ah, ah ah, ah ah
Stick of the match at the paraffin show
Drop a nickel to watch the asparagus grow
'The stone in what shell?'
You sure like to know now don't you?
A loom in the heir as the medicine came
To the nest of the mare of the mystery claims
But you'll miss having someone to blame
For your sadness, now won't you?
Well maybe there'll be a bakery hiring
We'll knead a little bit of dough to get by
(Groan!)
Did you come knocking on my door
Or did I come to yours?
Did you come knocking on my door
Or did I come to yours?
Did you come knocking on my door
Or did I come to yours?
Did you come knocking on my door?
Did you come knocking on my door
Or did I come to yours?
Whose ship came washed up on whose shore?
And from what ocean floor?
Did you come knocking on my door
Or did I come to yours?
Whose ship came washed up on whose shore?
And from what ocean floor?
There wasn't much to her dress
And I felt stuck in my body like a horse in quicksand
Didn't you come knocking on my door?
(Did you come knocking on my door
Or did I come to yours?)
Fiji Mermaid was written by Aaron Weiss.
Fiji Mermaid was produced by Daniel Smith.
mewithoutYou released Fiji Mermaid on Tue May 15 2012.
It seems to be an omniscient narrator. The song gives an update on the state of the circus train wreck after the animals have left, so the only voice left to speak is a narrator.