Текст песни: Wendy & Betsy + перевод

WENDY: Signs of contemptible times!

BETSY: You still dance with an arm to your side?

WENDY: Our hands to be empty & still

Asleep on the windowsill if it be your will--

BETSY: Is last winter’s prize winning

Norwegian Forest outside?!

Could I try on your lilac dress?

Wendy? }}}

(and you know the rest)

So I take from your stare

You’ve got a lesson in there?

WENDY: Well they say the Institute made

A perfected replica blade for the Ancient of Days

BETSY: While you dial the priest I’ll tell Princess to try the police--

WENDY: We could start the 3rd World War!

BETSY: But then what good would scripture be for?

[An absence of calm in the air as the temperature fell

On the new concierge at the Carriage Hotel]

WENDY: Word has it the younger McKim girl’s not well…

BETSY: …you remember that story with the mermaid and the actor?

WENDY: Betsy, the bones of the prophets we saw!

The mob throwing stones at the Bethlehem wall!

BETSY: [in grandiose tones, raising right paw

In Jacques Louis David Tennis Court Oath gesture]

All joking aside, five fingers wide

Should the bed of the bride be despair

Tell your parents it’s true

Though I’d never physically hurt you

I do know some Arabic prayers

But I left what was left of my self-respect

Like a Swiss army knife on the ground

And a pocket of coins at the IDF checkpoint

By what some call ‘the Temple Mount.'

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