Loose Translation Lyrics - Electric Version - New Pornographers

One holy ghost for a (holy/lonely) girl 

In the dream she shook then read, I quote, 

"We're all past elation now" (???) 

In the school of thought, in the halls of state, 

When the leaves turned pink, 

The loose translation must have lost her 

It must have cost her to go back 

To the civilization caught between here 

And the real one 

Just to say what you'd begun to say once 

We have been enrolled in the wrong schools 

All thru the pride of falling, falling 

Price of education now 

There have been no clues in the last few 

Takes in the steps we trace 

The education must have cost her 

It must have cost her to go back 

To the civilization caught between here 

And the real one 

Just to say what you'd begun to say once