Belle & Sebastian - Piazza New York Catcheradd

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Elope with me Miss Private and we’ll sail around the world
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I will be your Ferdinand and you my wayward girl
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How many nights of talking in hotel rooms can you take?
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How many nights of limping round on pagan holidays?
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Oh, elope with me in private and we’ll set something ablaze
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A trail for the devil to erase

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San Francisco’s calling us, the Giants and Mets will play
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Piazza, New York catcher, are you straight or are you gay?
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We hung about the stadium, we’ve got no place to stay
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We hung about the tenderloin and tenderly you tell
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About the saddest book you've ever read
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That always makes you cry
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The statue’s crying too and well he may

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I love you I’ve a drowning grip on your adoring face
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I love you, my responsibility has found a place
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Beside you and strong warnings in the guise of gentle words
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Come wave upon me from the family wider net absurd
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“You'll take care of her, I know it, you will do a better job"
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Maybe, but not what she deserves

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Elope with me Miss Private and we’ll drink ourselves awake
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We’ll taste the coffee houses and award certificates
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a privy seal to keep the feel of 1960 style
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We’ll comment on the decor and we’ll help the passer by
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And at dusk when work is over we’ll continue the debate
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In a borrowed bedroom virginal and spare

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The catcher hits for .318 and catches every day
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The pitcher puts religion first and rests on holidays
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He goes into cathedrals and lies prostrate on the floor
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He knows the drink affects his speed he’s praying for a doorway
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Back into the life he wants and the confession of the bench
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Life outside the diamond is a wrench

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I wish that you were here with me to pass the dull weekend
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I know it wouldn’t come to love, my heroine pretend
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A lady stepping from the songs we love until this day
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You’d settle for an epitaph like “Walk Away, Renee"
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The sun upon the roof in winter will draw you out like a flower
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Meet you at the statue in an hour
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Meet you at the statue in an hour