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Artist: Bishop Allen
Canonical path: /bishop-allen/like-castanets
Related lyric paths: 6
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Like Castanets
Read Like Castanets lyrics by Bishop Allen on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Like Castanets
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This city is silver in the moon
And mountains heaped with sugar spoons
The click and clatter of my feet
On lonely crooked cobbled streets
Like castanets
Down past the window shutter tie
The hollow of a haunted night
It's raining now out on the beach
The chit and chatter of my teeth
Like Castanets
I'm following the coffee trail
And drink it black and by the bail
The pesos turn to paper cups
My fingers tremble at the touch
Like castanets
Santa Lucia
...Bella vista
San Cristobal
La Moneda
And on the cable car I climb
Up to the sacred virgin shrine
This city's smothered in the smog
The snippy snap of wild dogs
Like Castanets
Tomorrow is Assumption Day
I ask them what they celebrate
Daniello says he can't explain
But he'll be clappin' anyway
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Ohh...Like Castanets
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Bishop Allen performs "Like Castanets", and this lyric page sits inside the Bishop Allen catalog on LyroVerse.
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