The Curse - Josh Ritter.mp3

[00:16.98]He opens his eyes
[00:18.60]Falls in love at first sight
[00:20.60]With the girl in the doorway
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[00:24.98]What beautiful lines
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[00:26.91]Heart full of life
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[00:28.54]After thousands of years
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[00:30.54]what a face to wake up to
[00:32.67]He holds back a sigh
[00:34.35]As she touches his arm
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[00:36.48]She dusts off the bed where til now he's been sleeping
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[00:40.54]Under mires of stone
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[00:42.42]The dry fig of his heart
[00:44.24]Under scarab and bone
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[00:46.31]Starts back to its beating
[00:48.31]She carries him home
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[00:58.81]In a beautiful boat
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[01:00.93]He watches the sea from a porthole in stowage
[01:04.68]He can hear all she says
[01:06.57]As she sits by his bed
[01:08.32]And one day his lips answered her
[01:10.69]In her own language
[01:12.32]The days quickly pass
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[01:14.26]He loves making her laugh
[01:15.44]
[01:16.32]The first time he moves it's her hair that he touches
[01:20.07]She asks "Are you cursed?"
[01:21.44]He says "I think that I'm cured."
[01:24.01]Then he talks of the Nile and the girls in bulrushes
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[01:44.70]In New York he is laid
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[01:46.63]In a glass covered case
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[01:48.63]He pretends he is dead
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[01:50.51]People crowd round to see him
[01:52.45]But at night she comes round
[01:54.14]And the two wander down the halls of the tomb
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[01:58.26]That she calls a museum
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[02:00.32]But he stops to rest
[02:01.95]Then less and less
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[02:03.95]Then it's her that looks tired
[02:05.95]Staying up asking questions
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[02:07.76]He learns how to read
[02:09.76]From the papers that she is writing about him
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[02:13.83]Then he makes corrections
[02:15.01]
[02:15.64]It's his face on her book
[02:17.70]More come to look
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[02:19.89]Families from Iowa
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[02:21.76]Upper West-Siders
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[02:23.89]Then one day it's too much
[02:25.83]He decides to get up
[02:27.58]Then as chaos ensues he walks outside to find her
[02:31.45]She is using a cane
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[02:34.01]And her face looks too pale
[02:35.95]But she's happy to see him
[02:37.77]As they walk he supports her
[02:39.52]She asks "Are you cursed?"
[02:41.58]But his answer is obscured
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[02:43.64]In a sandstorm of flashbulbs
[02:45.64]Rowdy reporters
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[03:21.08]Such reanimation
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[03:22.90]The two tour the nation
[03:24.77]He gets out of limos
[03:26.59]Meets other women
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[03:28.77]He speaks of her fondly
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[03:30.52]Their nights in the museum
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[03:32.34]She's just one more rag now he's dragging behind him
[03:36.65]She stops going out
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[03:38.27]She just lies there in bed
[03:40.27]In hotels in whatever towns they are speaking
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[03:44.40]Then her face starts to set
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[03:46.59]And her hands start to fold
[03:48.27]Then one day the dry fig of her heart stops its beating
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[04:10.51]Long ago on the ship
[04:12.39]She asked why pyramids
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[04:14.70]He said "Think of them as an immense invitation."
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[04:18.70]She asks "Are you cursed?"
[04:20.14]He says "I think that I'm cured."
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[04:22.89]Then he kissed her and hoped
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[04:25.08]That she'd forget that question