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If you can lose your head
Like a prisoner escapes from prison
Decapitation is so much better
I don't think I'll ever miss it
Ordered thought
A horrible thought!
The smell of gunpowder is spreading
Broken eggs
And Big Eye is staring up
Population shifting
The Big Eye is staring up
St. Denis
Carried his head
From Paris to his old hometown
At his name's day celebration
His friends all buy him hats
Caught thinking in straight lines
Rehabilitated with a sharp axe
Doing time
Hats off for good behavior
Free from the neck down
It's hats off for good behavior
If you can lose your head
While all around you they're keeping theirs
You won't be a man, my son
They will call you Big Eye!
St. Denis, although your eyes are blue
St. Denis, they made a mess of you
St. Denis, we are so in love
St. Denis, we are so in love
Like a prisoner escapes from prison
Decapitation is so much better
I don't think I'll ever miss it
A horrible thought!
The smell of gunpowder is spreading
And Big Eye is staring up
The Big Eye is staring up
Carried his head
From Paris to his old hometown
At his name's day celebration
His friends all buy him hats
Rehabilitated with a sharp axe
Doing time
Hats off for good behavior
It's hats off for good behavior
While all around you they're keeping theirs
You won't be a man, my son
They will call you Big Eye!
St. Denis, they made a mess of you
St. Denis, we are so in love
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The one thing I'm not at all confident about is the name of the saint. No habla French, and I don't know much about Catholic saints, so the pronunciation doesn't clear anything up for me. Suggestions and corrections welcome.
I think it's St. Denis. Also, there's a reference to Rudyard Kipling's poem "If."