Name: The Wendy House
Duration: P00H03M36S
Description: Recorded in the back bedroom at Brotown, Chicago IL from October 4-6, 2008

The Wendy House

from The Beginner's Guide To Birds ( 2 0 0 3 - 2 0 1 8 ) by Painkiller The Pigeon

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Recorded in the back bedroom at Brotown, Chicago IL from October 4-6, 2008

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So, I was sitting at a desk with a pen half-poised
Above a record of expense accounts
When some scent in the air
Like of a co-worker's hair
Produced a funny taste in my mouth

And it was just like the smell of your garden, dear
A place I hadn't recalled in at least twelve years
And I felt such a lie in this suit and tie
Remembering back on those days:

Too young to feel strange when we played those games
You were five, I think, and I was three
But I was quiet as a mouse down at the Wendy House
Was I you or were you me?

Well, the tinkling of ice in your Cheshire glass
While you chose my dress and I rolled up your pants
Is all such a haze now in this cubicle maze
That I wonder if it was real

But I know I recall the Wendy House...

I've been so terribly straight
Since you shut the gate
And put all your clothes in the past

I saw you at a wedding then some years later
And I wanted to ask if you
Could recall playing doctor and changing genders
While your mother set the tea for two

But we just made small talk, as a matter of course
How I'd had a daughter and you'd had a divorce
If you'd've told me then we'd end up boring as my dad
I'm not sure if I'd have ever left
I know I'd've never left
The Wendy House

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from The Beginner's Guide To Birds ( 2 0 0 3 - 2 0 1 8 ), released December 4, 2020

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