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Artist: The Handsome Family
Canonical path: /the-handsome-family/gentlemen
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Gentlemen
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Gentlemen
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Gentlemen, I tell you now
I swear the truth
I saw the table rise, the teacup flew
From tempered glass I built the apparatus
To alight in the presence of phantasmus
Filaments within detect a change
In aero-pressure, barometric waves
Gentlemen, in the name of science!
Gentlemen, I now can prove
The unseen world is close, it pushes through
Gentlemen, the lights blew out!
Gentlemen, the curtains moved!
A world of light resides just past our view
Within the crooks of vacuum tubes
A caged spirit lit aglow the room
Burst forth from the shattered tube
It thinned my blood, burnt me, ravaged cruel
Gentlemen, the lights do flicker!
Gentlemen, the air it cools!
Who's with me here, listening in this room?
Gentlemen, the world grows dark!
Gentlemen, the curtains moved!
Who's with me here, whispering in this room?
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The Handsome Family performs "Gentlemen", and this lyric page sits inside the The Handsome Family catalog on LyroVerse.
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