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Charming Disaster - What Do You Do With a Corpse

from Bushwick Book Club Presents Edgar Allen Poe by Bushwick Book Club

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Jasmin Bonilla I love Edgar Allan Poe. This song is a fantastic mix of funny and creepy!
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Did you ever have a day when you're trying to drink
And your favorite cat walks in and your tiny heart sinks
Because just yesterday you hung it from a string
And now your wife's in the way when you got an axe you're trying to swing

Did you ever meet someone with a filmy blue eye
And when he looks at you, it's kinda hard to describe
You even like this man, but you know he's got to die
So you carry out a plan in the middle of the night.

Do you chop it up
And burn the bits
Or throw it in a well or
Do you pack it in a box and ship it
Dig a grave down in the cellar
What do you do with a corpse
Don’t you worry about the smell
And also how do you know
When someone’s dead
Sometimes it’s hard to tell

When your friend’s beloved sister dies one tragic afternoon
Do you hold off on the burial and lock her in a room
On a dark and stormy night when she rises from the tomb
You will realize she was only in a cataleptic swoon

When you have a little problem you don’t want folks to find
Or perhaps you’ve been insulted and revenge is on your mind
Just go down to the basement in the back behind the wine
Consider some home masonry to cover up your crime

Do you chop it up...

One morning in cool blood
I stopped the drumbeat of a heart
And never have I slept so very well
You know I am not mad
Because my senses are acute
I can hear things in heaven earth and hell

Were you ever taken over by that fiend intemperance
Were you ever so influenced by that gin-nurtured malevolence
To offer your own wife a taste of personal violence
Till you know you have destroyed all hope of God's mercy or innocence

Don't you hate it when a sick man's in your mesmerizing gaze
And though he passes in the night, you got him twitching for many days
And then he gives you a nasty fright when he croaks "let me die please"
Once you release him from his state he turns to goo like marmalade

Do you chop it up...

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from Bushwick Book Club Presents Edgar Allen Poe, released January 2, 2013
Ellia Bisker - vocals + ukulele
Jeff Morris - vocals + guitar
Written + composed by Ellia Bisker + Jeff Morris

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The Bushwick Book Club Brooklyn, New York

We started in January 2009 playing songs written in response to Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions. We haven't stopped since. We've written & performed songs inspired by everything from "On The Origin of Species" to Dr. Seuss to Raymond Carver. There are BBCs popping up nationwide now. Bushwick Book Club Seattle started in 2010 & is run by Geoff Larson. Our nerdy dare-devilry knows no bounds. ... more

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