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Artist: Brett Anderson
Canonical path: /brett-anderson/the-empress
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The Empress
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The Empress
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Didn't I try
To love her?
Didn't I paint
Pictures of her?
Didn't I try
To change?
I shouldn't have bothered.
Didn't I buy
The ocean for her?
Didn't I wear
The colour (?)
Didn't I feel
The wind?
Didn't I plead?
She is strange
And sorrow.
She is
Like cherry blossom.
She is
The Empress.
Didn't I kneel
Before her?
Didn't I follow
Her orders?
Didn't I clean
Her shit?
Didn't I fall?
Didn't I climb
The ladder?
Didn't I smile
For the cameras?
Didn't I feel
The wind?
Didn't I plead? (? bleed)
She is strange
And sorrow.
She is
Like cherry blossom.
She is
The Empress.
She is strange
And sorrow.
With lips
Like cherry blossom.
She is
The Empress.
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Brett Anderson performs "The Empress", and this lyric page sits inside the Brett Anderson catalog on LyroVerse.
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