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| The Felice Brothers – Don't Wake The Scarecrow Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This and Ballad of Lou the Welterweight are my fave Felice Brothers' songs. The whole Yellow Brick Road movie that plays out here is awesome...and the cast of characters: Dorothy, Tin Man and the Scarecrow himself. It's the little details that really make it, things like "Aw yeah, leave your clothes there on the folding chair" which almost spells out the transient nature of the sex on offer along with the bleak functionality of the room in question. It's the basis of a whole novel yet it fits into a song perfectly. Such style and economy of writing. Definitely in my top 10 songs of all time. |
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| The Felice Brothers – Don't Wake The Scarecrow Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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The Felice Brothers are magnificent but this might just be their finest song. It's like early Tom Waits for the picture it creates...waiting on the broke stairs for the prostitute and the seediness of the folding chair for the punter's clothes. But what an idea 'call me Dorthy in red shoes' and then, one verse later he's; in a relationship with her and on their Yellow Brick Road he's become the Tin Man. But escape is never likely and the song ends with the idea that she's back with the scarecrow (the pimp)leaving him just with the memories:" But I loved you there in the lamp light / With your bare thighs / And the halo of your hairline / And all my lifelong / I'll never shake off your siren song..." Utterly magnificent. |
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