Suddenly There Is a Tidal Wave

by The Magnetic Fields

From the album: The Wayward Bus

Track 10 of 20 on The Wayward Bus (1992).

Duration: 3:19

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Lyrics for Suddenly There Is a Tidal Wave

You held me upside-down Till I couldn't breathe anymore Then you held me like a baby Television, like wine and cigarettes Like grains of sand and raspberry schnapps Like a thousand sunsets The boys talk like they own the world The women keep their stupid diaries But suddenly there's a tidal wave And everything is sucked out to sea There were probably birds Outside our little room I don't remember anything but you We must have been the butt Of all the jokes in the world For trying to live like Pippi Longstocking The boys talk like they own the world The women keep their stupid diaries But suddenly there's a tidal wave And everything is sucked out to sea The boys talk like they own the world The women keep their stupid diaries But suddenly there's a tidal wave And everything is sucked out to sea

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