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Madame Ray Lyrics
Give me a polaroid picture ‘till you fit in my pocket
Now paste it into my heart shaped locket
Eventually I’ll cheat on every man I meet
I know I cant help it
Buy me a drink and I will tell you my name
I’m a rose petal fallen from a mainline train
Always there to touch but just out of reach
I know you can’t help it
Eye on metronome watching the way you write her name
An object of destruction made for Madame Ray
Ooh oh, i’ll be your apprentice
Ooh oh, i’m still in my 20s
Eyes from a portrait of one whose love could see no more,
You cant keep her captive, on your wall
Left New York but drew my outline
On a ticket back to london
Whitewashed all my boyfriends features
Sola rising future pictures
Lie behind a camera past the city music hall,
Madame Ray will sit me high above you all
Left New York but drew my outline
On a record sleeve in brooklyn
Whitewashed three years of existence
Sola rising future pictures
Man let go, he couldn’t keep her
Locks of hair on artist’s scissors
Traces of unseen love rivals
Sola rising into pictures
I am forever being put away
and i am always in reserve (x2)
Always in reserve
Materials indestructible
Forever being put away
Taken for a ride, put on the spot
The locket must go on
I am always in reserve
I am forever being put away
and i am always in reserve (x4)
Now paste it into my heart shaped locket
Eventually I’ll cheat on every man I meet
I know I cant help it
I’m a rose petal fallen from a mainline train
Always there to touch but just out of reach
I know you can’t help it
An object of destruction made for Madame Ray
Ooh oh, i’ll be your apprentice
Ooh oh, i’m still in my 20s
You cant keep her captive, on your wall
On a ticket back to london
Whitewashed all my boyfriends features
Sola rising future pictures
Madame Ray will sit me high above you all
On a record sleeve in brooklyn
Whitewashed three years of existence
Sola rising future pictures
Locks of hair on artist’s scissors
Traces of unseen love rivals
Sola rising into pictures
and i am always in reserve (x2)
Materials indestructible
Forever being put away
Taken for a ride, put on the spot
The locket must go on
I am always in reserve
and i am always in reserve (x4)
Song Info
Submitted by
loubricant On Oct 01, 2006
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Great song. And the line before "An object of destruction made for Madame Ray" is "Eye on metronome watching the way you write her name" according to the lyrics in the album sleeve.
This song is about one of Kate's heroine's, Madame Ray, Lee Miller's mistress.
Actually Lee Miller was Man Ray's mistress making her the Madame Ray of the song.
That's right. I always get those two names the wrong way round.