Olly Olly Oxen Free Lyrics - Singles - Amanda Palmer

So 

You wanted 

That's what you get for wanting 

You got it 

That's what you get for getting 

Forgotten 

You're gardening a rotting bed 

Of raygun-era icons 

So 

Let's start it 

Let's start it 

From the minute you felt it 

You felt it like a prison 

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A panic, you felt it 

Like that coffee scene 

From Moscow on the Hudson 

So 

Be honest 

It's not as if you're happy about it 

It's not as if you're animatronic 

It's not as if you couldn't 

Cry out any time you wanted 

Olly olly oxen free 

All the people you will never be 

Olly olly oxen free 

Olly olly olly olly 

Olly olly olly olly 

Fate 

Photos 

You call it 

You color it 

The color you want it 

You carpet it 

That's awful convenient 

You paint yourself a nice white room 

With stripes and matching curtains 

So 

You forfeit 

You cannot build a river across it 

You cannot hold your own heart hostage 

You do not have the strength 

To gag yourself in every closet 

The wrong place, wrong mind 

Timing's always bad 

You're such a sad case 

Misplaced renaissance 

Inventor of a worldwide 

Heartbreak, taking it in stride 

'Cause you're an expert 

Aren't you? 

Aren't you just a dime a dozen? 

Murderous monosyllabic moron 

With no sense of purpose 

Working on your songs all night 

To justify your worthlessness 

To anyone who's watching 

If they only saw your alter egos 

Pretty in the shop windows 

Where you got auctioned hours ago 

Olly olly oxen free 

All the people you will never be 

Olly olly oxen free 

olly olly olly olly 

Higher than the king can 

See no evil, hear no evil 

Capture me and throw the key 

See no evil, hear no evil 

Capture me and throw the key away 

Throw the key away 

So 

It's over 

You're lying in a coffin of clutter 

Your father and your sister, your drummer 

Are sorting through your tapes 

And lifesaver collection, and you wonder 

You wonder if you could've done better 

You wonder if you should've surrendered 

Before you learned that 

Nobody actually wants a fucking martyr 

Didn't you, didn't you, didn't 

Didn't you see? 

Didn't you, didn't you, didn't 

Didn't you see? 

Didn't you, didn't you, didn't 

Didn't you see me? 

Didn't you, didn't you, didn't 

Didn't you see me? 

Olly olly oxen free 

All the people you will never be 

Olly olly oxen free 

olly olly olly olly 

Higher than the king can 

See no evil, hear no evil 

Capture me and throw the key 

See no evil, hear no evil 

Capture me and throw the key away 

Throw the key away 

Throw the key away