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Red-gold curls are splashed across my pillowcase
Like Flower petals on an annivers’ry
A pretty smile is slashed across her pretty face
That says “I don’t know that this guy don’t deserve me”
Tiny white hands are searching for a heartbeat
In my sallow sunken chest
Outside snow is falling in the dark street
And I can’t seem to get no rest

No I can’t sleep
I can’t barely breathe

So goodbye to Bolero my sentimental friend
I don’t know when I will drop the needle on you again
No more dancing in my bedroom to your horns and violins
Though your drums beat on inside my chest, keeping time with all my sins

Like a Celtic Catalina she is dancing
Across the dusty floorboards of my memory
Like a scarlet Proserpina she is planting
Funerary flowers in all the holes inside of me
Her hips are swaying in the moonlight
Behind my eyelids in the dark
I follow her braying in the lamplight
Across the creek and through the park

And then she’s gone
Just like that it’s over, she’s gone

So goodbye to Bolero my sentimental friend
I don’t know when I will drop the needle on you again
No more dancing in my bedroom to your horns and violins
Though your drums beat on inside my chest, keeping time with all my sins

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from The Velvet Curtain EP [Deluxe Edition], released June 25, 2013
Alexander Ross - Guitars & Vocals
Cailley Culotta - Viola
Andrew St.Jean - Trumpet
Matt Thompson - Euphonium
Jonathan M. Dana - Drums

Words and music by Alexander Ross

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Alexander Ross Boston, Massachusetts

Alexander is a guitar player and singer-songwriter living and studying in Boston. He hopes you'll listen to his songs, be his friend, ask him to start a loud rock band, and conquer the world with him, but he'll settle for that first thing.

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