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Liegende Frau mit Frucht

from Shelto Marx Sings Skoene Oke by Shelto Marx

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After Fernando Botero's Liegende Frau mit Frucht, Am Heumarkt, Bamberg, Germany

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Lying woman with fruit
Sun's strange angled, I feel strange, too
Trees grow out of the stone
Roots below

Spread like so many hands
Train tracks, fingers all across the land
If it all went amiss
If a fist...

Well there's beauty all around
But to what purpose, for what goal?
Oh I look, I feel, I think but still
I don't do all that I told you
I don't do all that I told you
All I told you that I'd do

Lying woman with fruit
Tall small figure, short legs, big boots
I feel good when it snows
I feel older

The outdoors just like a room
Speak and your voice will stick close to you
As if keeping you warm
As if yours

And for an hour you're fine
Your feet swell up, then you're back inside
Wondering if the light goes
With the snow

If the razor's stroke erased the lower portion of your jaw
If you looked up after washing up
And you weren't quite sure what you saw
If the mirror or the bare wall
Waiting for a call
As the darkness slowly slips down

In a couple of years
I might be far away from here
In the warm summer haze
That I've prayed for
Might be watching TV
Feet up, mind off, might be happy
And the women I meet
They're so sweet
Even dogs speak a language that I know
And there's music in the air
And the clouds are purple, too

Lying woman with fruit
Don't look at me and I won't you

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from Shelto Marx Sings Skoene Oke, released December 3, 2021

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Shelto Marx Brooklyn, New York

Shelto Marx is the nom de plonk used by Marshall Yarbrough (Rube, Glass Bead Band, Power Hour). Born and raised in Atlanta, GA, with a formative stint in Athens, he now lives in New York City, where he plays curly-headed piano pop music. Eat your heart out, Randy Newman. ... more

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