Dresden Dolls, The - Slide Lyrics

Complimentary "Slide" Ringtone

a late april day and it's sunny outside,
and a red little girl's at the top of a slide,
and an an orange old man at the bottom,
wants to take her for a ride,
as she slips and she tumbles the orange man mumbles,
pennies crash down from the sky,
and he tells her he'll take her away where it's safe,
and of course it is a lie.
she's a third the down and her skirts are yanked up
and her little girl cheeks start to wrinkle,
but her smile is wide and her legs are spread wider,
her hair growing long and her hips,
getting larger, past 
getting brighter, light 
growing weaker....

she is halfway down now but the man is impatient
shakes change in his pocket he might have to wait but she's, coming...
she's coming,
she's, coming...

who are you blaming?
they're just playing!
that's a good one...
who left the playground,
a good decade before the bell...rang?

as she starts to draw nearer his view becomes clearer,
the splinters are painful but she doesn't feel it,
the pennies were loaded and as they exploded,
she starts to spin out of control...
her eyes are now closing, 
her sleeves are unrolling,
up past her head, 
and her veins are all showing,
not that she noticed,
she's thoroughly focused on
one old man who's laughing...
who's laughing....
who's laughing...
don't worry,
i've got you,
don't worry,
i've got you,
don't worry,
i've got you....

the orange man's got you! (ooooh...)

a late april day and it's sunny outside,
and a red little girl's at the top of a slide,
and an an orange old man at the bottom,
wants to take her for a ride...

Complimentary "Slide" Ringtone

lyrics corrected by Zoë on 19-04-2005