The Handsome Family – The Red Door (Guitar)

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You appeared upon the white shore 

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on a dark and moonless eve 

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I led you through the stone gate, 

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torches spitting in the breeze

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All around our palace glistened, 

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splashed with waves from the sea, 

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but you shone bright as a thousand suns 

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in your gown of ivory

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One thing, I ask of you, my love 

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as I comb your white-gold hair 

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Only stay your hand from the red door, 

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the red door beneath the stairs

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The red door under the stairs, 

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the red door under the stairs 

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Stay your hand from that old, black lock

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There's nothing to see in there

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Why do you stand so many hours 

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staring out across the sea? 

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Why do you slip out past the black drapes 

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when I pretend that I'm asleep?

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And even in the bright sun 

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as we walk the bone-white beach

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You put your ear to the whispering shells 

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and turned away from me

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Red in your dress's hem tonight, 

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a red flash in your roving eye

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Why the tremor in your soft hands 

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when I pull you to my side?

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The red door and what's inside, 

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the red door and all it hides 

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Stare away across the ocean waves, 

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but I know what you've seen tonight