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lyrics

Lipstick is rolling off the line, like bottled wine
Assembling in silver shining rows, like dominoes
And each tube is made to catch your eye
And break down sales resistance
And sail you into love affairs
The glitter of romance
The world of magazine ads
And models and shampoo
And hair and nails keep growing
A while after you’re dead
And buried too.

The dolls are passing lipstick like a joint
And rummaging through closets
And living just in photographs
And album cover art
All lit up with a flashbulb
Detectives dust for prints
And it really wakes the room up
The streamers and the sparkle
When her eyes go wild.
Depositing like limestone
The lipstick on your collar.
You can read my lips
I wonder where her eyes go, eyes go wild.

At parties and cafés and cold buffets
To sit in beauty parlors and salons
With makeup on and dream
About the life in magazines
Where no one gets their heart broke
And everyone has love affairs
With guys with model hair
Who care about your feelings.

The closet light was broken
I tried to pull the chain down
And shoeboxes were falling
Til my eyes go wild.
I’m dizzy from the spinning
And I can’t breathe from laughing
At the lipstick on the mirror
Where her eyes go, eyes go wild.

Lipstick is rolling off the line, like bottled wine
Assembling in silver shining rows, like dominoes
And each tube is made to catch your eye
And break down sales resistance
And sail you into love affairs
The glitter of romance
The world of magazine ads
All lit up with a flashbulb
Detectives dust for prints
And it really wakes the room up
When her eyes go wild.

Depositing like limestone
The lipstick on your collar.
You can read my lips
I wonder where her eyes go wild.

The closet light was broken
I tried to pull the chain down
And shoeboxes were falling
Til my eyes go wild.

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from Harlem Hayride, released July 19, 2013
@ 2013 Karl Straub, Clever Bits Music (BMI)

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Karl Straub Alexandria, Virginia

KARL STRAUB writes music the way birds build nests, throwing together something sturdy from whatever detritus is lying around. Bubblegum pop, Charlie Parker, Merle Haggard and Bob Wills, Rodgers & Hart, psych fuzz, the Dolls and Velvet Underground, etc.
Straub basically uses two approaches when he writes lyrics— storytelling and impressionism.
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