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Grim Augury Lyrics
(church bell ringing)
Both our families
Are to gathering
For cutting the baby out
With my grandmother's heirloom antler-handled carving knife
They were under her grand chandelier
Where we altogether have shared holiday dinner
But it was YOUR father that was holding the knife!
Yeah, I begged me not to make me tell ya
Yeah, I pleaded with ya
To leave it alone
I told ya, I told you that
You didn't want to know
What went in my horrible dream
I was peering in through the picture window
It was a heartwarming tableau like a Norman Rockwell painting
Until I zoomed in
I was making noises in my sleep
But you wouldn't believe me when I told ya that I wasn't with someone
In my dream
Catfish were wriggling in blood and gore in the kitchen sink!
Yeah, I told ya, I told ya, I told you ...
You ...
Now, sweetie, please promise me
That you won't see
This as some GRIM augury!
Both our families
Are to gathering
For cutting the baby out
With my grandmother's heirloom antler-handled carving knife
Where we altogether have shared holiday dinner
But it was YOUR father that was holding the knife!
Yeah, I pleaded with ya
To leave it alone
You didn't want to know
What went in my horrible dream
It was a heartwarming tableau like a Norman Rockwell painting
Until I zoomed in
But you wouldn't believe me when I told ya that I wasn't with someone
In my dream
You ...
That you won't see
This as some GRIM augury!
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There is such a huge disconnect between the way these lyrics read on paper, and the stuff you see when you hear them.
This needs to be listed as artist "Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse", connected to the album, "Dark Night of the Soul", and the title changed to "GRIM Augury".
This needs to be listed as artist "Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse", connected to the album, "Dark Night of the Soul", and the title changed to "GRIM Augury".
A man awakes from a nightmare. His wife accuses him of "being with someone" during the dream but he denies this. He begs her not to make him tell her what the dream is but she forces him. In this dream, he was peering through the picture window of his grandmother's home into her dining room. Both the narrator's and his wife's families were present. For the narrator, this at first seems heartwarming and pleasant, until he "zooms in" and realized what is going on. In this dream, his wife is pregnant (it is unknown if this is also true in real life) and is apparently restrained or otherwise unable to defend herself while lying on the dining room table. The wife's father is holding the husband's grandmother's heirloom antler-handled carving knife, "for cutting the baby out". The implied violence is fleshed out in the line "Catfish were wriggling in blood and gore in the kitchen sink!"... At the song's conclusion the husband tells his wife not to take this dream as some "grim augury" of what is to come in the future, which dubiously implies that she is, in fact, pregnant.