This Side of Minnesota

from Diving with Zelda by Skiprope Opus

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lyrics

Looking like a flash
Like a ferris wheel spinning in the night
Enthusiasm is distasteful
Someone won't you poison them?
They're fresh

Out of Kansas City
Just an offspring of some Bilphists
Shiny, sparkling, Princeton, prom-girls
Make me think of tans of summers yet to come

Somber tunes from orchestras
With retroactive, melancholy music
Played for acrobats in vaudeville
Mechanical pianos

(big linen handkerchiefs, two dozen bathing suits, carnivals, affection supercilious amusements)

People dress for parties
Just as if like magic, a narcissistic, simple-fest
And once they exit, then they are succeeded by the others

We must keep tradition
That we never will get tired
It's fun spending money
In a foreign city

Ragtime Kids
Flappers
Jazz babies
Baby Vamps

Ragtime Kids
Flappers
Jazz Women
Baby Vamps

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from Diving with Zelda, released July 7, 2015
Words by Richard Blaine
Music by Richard Blaine and Skiprope Cello

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Skiprope Opus - an indie band that consumes books, music,
philosophy, and experiments with low-tech sound equipment between their Central California and Iowa homes.

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