Verdi Cries

10,000 Maniacs

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10,000 Maniacs

10,000 Maniacs is a United States-based alternative rock band, which formed in 1981 and continues to be active with various line-ups. more »


Year:
1987
4:21
155 
#3

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The man in one nineteen takes his tea all alone. 
Mornings we all rise to wireless Verdi cries. 
I'm hearing opera through the door. 
The souls of men and women, impassioned all. 
Their voices climb and fall; battle trumpets call. 
I fill the bath and climb inside, singing. 

He will not touch their pastry 
But every day they bring him more. 
Gold from the breakfast tray, I steal them all away 
And then go and eat them on the shore. 

I draw a jackal-headed woman in the sand, 
Sing of a lover's fate sealed by jealous hate 
Then wash my hand in the sea. 
With just three days more I'd have just about learned the entire score to Aida. 

Holidays must end as you know. 
All is memory taken home with me: 
The opera, the stolen tea, the sand drawing, the verging sea, all years ago.

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Written by: NATALIE MERCHANT

Lyrics © Downtown Music Publishing

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