Amanda Palmer

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Australia

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Australia

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I can do the dishes while talking on the phone

I could ask you for an answer

But you want to be alone

I can never do the dishes a single dish at a time

It's too much of a commitment

So I line them up and fire

I could calamine your insides

I could wind them all around me

I could tiptoe on a tightrope

Made of fear and looking down see

All the people, do they see me?

I can wave or I can carry all the dishes that they gave me

That are keeping me steady

Or I could go to Australia

And carry a bowie knife

And wear my hair like Hepburn parted on the side

And learn card tricks

And buy everyone drinks and take boxing

And write songs about my bowie knife

I could do these dishes

I could try to do these dishes

I could try

I could bake a cake

My kitchen is small, but I could clear the space

I could write my name

Because practice makes perfect

Yes, that's what they say

I could make a button out of plaster

That said finished I could hang it in my closet

To the left side of the light switch

I could go out to a restaurant

And try drinking to forget it

And then come home less afraid

And then press it and press it

Or I could go to Australia

Carry a bowie knife

And wear my hair like Hepburn parted on the side

And learn card tricks

And buy everyone drinks and take boxing

And try eating things only with chopsticks

And write songs about my bowie knife

I could do these dishes

I could try to do these dishes

I could decide to do these dishes

I could decide

Or I could go to Australia

Carry a bowie knife

And wear my hair like Hepburn parted on the side

And learn card tricks and physics

And buy everyone drinks and take boxing

And try eating things only with chopsticks

And finally be like a person I think you might like

I could do these dishes

I could try to do these dishes

I could decide to do these dishes

I could decide to do these dishes

Time to decide

Fuck it

I'm gonna go to Australia

I'm gonna go to Australia

I'm gonna go to Australia

She's gonna go to Australia

Bye-bye

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Amanda Palmer performs "Australia", and this lyric page sits inside the Amanda Palmer catalog on LyroVerse.

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