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Artist: CocoRosie
Canonical path: /cocorosie/smokey-taboo
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Smokey Taboo
Read Smokey Taboo lyrics by CocoRosie on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Smokey Taboo
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They call her smokey taboo
I got your name tatooed
High like a helium balloon
Midnight to noon
I'm a desert child
And mountains make me nauseous
I like to look up wild
At an infinite sky
Twinkling with diamonds
It's true
I get depressed in fancy hotel rooms
Undressed
With nothing to flaunt but my lonelyness
Thinking of the night song of your head
Premature as evening falls it calls to me
Interrupted by the sirens in the streets
Cristal Heaven
Somedays
You're like an anchor on my heart they say
The stolen water tastes sweet
more like rotten milk and rancid meat to me
I prefers when it's free
Like looking at the stars
Don't need no fancy cars
When we first
Our kisses sparked
Yeah I'm afraid of sharks
But not the dark
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CocoRosie performs "Smokey Taboo", and this lyric page sits inside the CocoRosie catalog on LyroVerse.
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