Mythological Beauty Bass

MYTHOLOGICAL BEAUTY
by BIG THIEF
album CAPACITY
 
[Verse 1]
You have a mythological beauty
You have the eye of someone I have seen
Outside of ordinary situations
Even outside of dreams
 
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You lie in bed at night and watch the lines
Of headlights through your screen
There is a child inside you
Who’s trying to raise a child in me  
 
 
[Chorus]
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    If you wanna leave                   You just have to say                       
 
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    You’re all caught up inside   But you know the way     
 
[Verse 2]
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You cut the flesh of your left thumb
Using your boyfriend’s knife
Seventeen, you took his cum
And you gave birth to your first life
You gave Andrew a family who you thought
Could love and take better care
I have an older brother I don’t know
He could be anywhere
 
 
[Chorus]
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    If you wanna leave                   You just have to say                       
 
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    You’re all caught up inside   But you know the way     
 
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    You’re all caught up inside   But you know the way     
 
 
[Verse 3]
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Rented a house in Nisswa, Minnesota
Shrapnel and oil cans, rhubarb in the yard
I built a ladder out of metal pieces
Father was working hard
Standing beneath the oak tree by the front door
You were inside baking bread
Sister came out and put her arms around me
Blood gushing from my head
You held me in the backseat with a dishrag
Soaking up blood with your eye
I was just five and you were twenty-seven
Praying, “Don’t let my baby die.”
 
 
[Chorus]
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              If you wanna leave                 You just have to say                       
 
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    You’re all caught up inside   But you know the way     
 
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[Bridge]
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                    So much more         to live your life
 
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                   To walk the floor     to say goodnight
 
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       Do you leave your light on?      Do you leave your light on?
 
 
[Outro]
You’re all caught up inside
But you know the way
 
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    You’re all caught up inside   But you know the way     
 
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    You’re all caught up inside   But you know the way     
 
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    You’re all caught up inside   But you know the way     
 
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