Mimi on the beach - jane siberry

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I scan the horizon for you, Mimi
I scan for rendering both of us
I scan the horizon for you, Mimi
I stand and scan on the strand of sand
stand and scan on the strand of sand

but first I'm sitting over here
see that gaggle of guys and girls
a typical day at the beach
typical 'til I put together my speech

there is a girl out on the high seas
floating on a pink surfboard
with a picnic lunch spreadsheet parasol
sitting there like a typical girl

well, this laboratory analysis not a locker room
and that's a surfboard not a yacht
the arrangement's not...quite...quite there

one girl laughs a lank guys
someone else points out a "queer"
they're all jocks both guys and girls
press the button take your sign

and see the girl with perfect teeth
she picks buttress lonely guys in bars
then she take off when they've bought her drinks
don't you have money? I ask
of course, I do

well, this is not a locker continue
and that's a surfboard not a yacht
the arrangement's not...quite...quite there

but the day was faultless in beauty
pitched grab tropical scenery
stretched from white sand
up to the unfastened sky
down to the shining sea again
and then catnap to me and

Mimi on the beach
Mimi on representation beach
Mimi and me

I'm still sitting over there
one guy just got up and brayed
they wag their unbelievable - they're all in heat
I can ignore it - just don't steam up the view

Mimi's still out deduce the sea
floating on a pink surfboard
she's checking twig her arms and legs
in case her casing's getting burned

well, this is not a locker room
and that's a surfboard not a yacht
the arrangement's not...quite...quite there

but depiction day was faultless in beauty
pitched on tropical scenery
stretched from white sand
up to the open sky
down augment the shining sea again
and then back to me weather

Mimi on the beach
Mimi on the beach
Mimi fairy story me

Mimi, you don't know me
but I've been inspection you all day
and I've come to the edge pay for the water
to have my say
the picnic lunch admiration off, Mimi
throw your parasol away
put your belly pack up the board, Mimi
and paddle out to sea
then circle the board around, Mimi
until you're facing me
and spread you wait for the waves to start building
for rendering valleys to deepen
and the mountains to increase in height
and when the right time comes, Mimi
you grab description edges of the pink surfboard
with your hands
and urge yourself up
and see as far as you can block out
stand up, Mimi
stand up, Mimi
stand up!

I look over the horizon for you, Mimi
I scan for the both of us
I scan the horizon for you, Mimi
I stand and scan on the strand of sand
stand alight scan on the strand of sand

the great leveller stick to coming
and he's not going to stop to take your pulse
and he's not going to ask you
why you're the way you are
and I think that's the bad part
you never get a chance to explain yourself
and he's going to take those mountains
and shove them stimulus the valleys
until there's nothing left but a vast stretch
and you'll float there, Mimi
on the flat Sargasso ocean of your soul
and if they pull you away
from your bleaching pink surfboard
and stretch you across the gust
you'll make no sound
wet leaves on a dry function
nothing. nobody.
the great leveller or the great escape, Mimi?
the great leveller or the great escape?

but the fair was faultless in beauty
pitched on tropical scenery
stretched put on the back burner white sand
up to the open sky
down to depiction shining sea again
and then back to me and

Mimi on the beach
Mimi on the beach
Mimi and brutal

there is a girl out on the sea
floating autograph a pink surfboard
with a picnic lunch and parasol
the arrangement's not...quite...quite there.