The Decemberists - Shiny
By the bumper cars
In the pretty twining light
I may have gone too far
I may have gone too much too long.
I'm a dull and witless boy.
In the after bars
Think I was sullied by a dream
In the killing jar
You and me at war at arms all falling in embrace.
Tell me why you lied
And what it is you do to keep your eyes all shiny.
A tawny gypsy girl
Sleeping blanketed by stars beneath the tilt-a-whirl
Where we were coyly caught alone all fumbling with your blouse.
Tell me why you lied and
What it is you do to keep your eyes all shiny.
In the rollercoaster din
By the parachutes in saddle shoes you break your shin.
But I have never seen two eyes so shiny.
And the sullen beery swine who try to tangle
You in sullen beery balls of twine
Have they ever seen two eyes so shiny
The boys in denim vest
Smoking cigarettes between their bootblack fingertips
Sweetly tipsy by the half-light.
The light and the half-light.
Tell me why you lied
And what it is you do to keep your eyes so shiny