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Australia
Amanda Palmer

I could do the dishes while talking on the phone

i could ask you for an answer but you want to be alone

I can never do the dishes a single dish at a time

It's too much of a commitment so I close my eyes and fire


I could calamine your insides

I could wind them all around me I could

tiptoe on a tightrope made of fear and looking down see

all the people do they see me I can wave or

I can carry all the silverware I'm holding that is

Keeping me steady


Or I could go to Australia

And carry a bowie knife

and wear my hair like Hepburn parted on the side

And learn card tricks and buy

Everyone drinks and take boxing and write

songs about my bowie knife


I could do these dishes I could try

To do these dishes

Time to decide


I could make a cake

My kitchen is small but I could clear the space

I could write my name

Cos practice makes perfect yes that's what they say

I could rearrange my room and draw a bath and wash my wolf suit


I could make a button out of plaster

That said finished I could nail it in my closet

To the right side of the lightswitch

I could walk down to a restaurant and try drinking to forget it

but then come home less afraid and then press it and press it


Or I could go to Australia

carry a bowie knife

and wear my hair like Hepburn parted on the side

And learn card tricks and buy

Everyone drinks and take boxing and try

Eating things only with chopsticks and write

songs about my bowie knife


I could do these dishes I could try

To do these dishes

I could try to do these dishes

Time to decide


or i could go to Australia

And carry a bowie knife

and wear my hair like Hepburn parted on the side

and learn card tricks and physics and buy

everyone drinks and take boxing and try

eating things only with chopsticks and finally

be like a person I think you'd like


I could do these dishes I could try

To do these dishes I could try to do these dishes

Time to decide to do these dishes

Time to DECIDE.

Fuck it

I'm gonna go to Australia

I'm gonna go to Australia

I'm gonna go to Australia

Bye-bye


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