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    Featuring illustrations by the following artists:
    Carrie Alexandria Caster
    Ellia Bisker
    Dame Darcy
    Ted Enik & Shiloh Penfield
    Ben Eshleman
    Camilla Finlay
    Omer Gal
    Devon Greig
    Bob Howard
    A. Nancy Koutsouflakis
    Erich S. Lehman
    Thos. Little
    Madame Onça
    Jeff Morris
    Carolyn Raship
    Logan Riley
    Jeff Ritchie
    Susan Saas
    Charles Schneider
    Ben Shafer
    Jacquelyn Marie Shannon
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    Steven Warrick
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lyrics

Give me a kiss before I'm to go
A lingering kiss to keep me warm
Pack your things and don't tell a soul
My clumsy dancer, my good luck charm
I think of you when I'm up in the air
Things we'll do when we get out of here
The net stretched to catch me's the trap that I'm in
My future's in pictures all over your skin

Deep in the high that does nothing but fall
Swing on a wire high over it all
I look down at the sky and up at the floor
Deep in the high that does nothing but fall

We were so young and innocent
Back then when we first met
You were so tender and sweet
I cherish the memory
Words that you said to me
You swept me right off my feet
Now I know a couple things
There's our life in the ring
Then there's the life that you live
You've grown cold and distant
It's making me desperate
Something is going to give

Beware the snake charmer with the lazy green eye
She's a hotheaded harpy with a murderous mind
I've been in her coils for ten years of my life
A pox on these rings which do nothing but bind
It must have been madness when we were wed
The liquor of passion gone straight to our heads
Ever since then there's been pain and regret
Bile in our hearts and snakes in our bed

Deep in the high that does nothing but fall
We had our time darling, that time is no more
I look down at the sky and up at the floor
Deep in the high that does nothing but fall

You're a bastard
Seedy unscrupulous
Candy ass dilettante
Lazy Lothario
Rat turd
You're a bastard
Self-centered impotent
Cheap inconsiderate
Two-timing ignorant
Layabout flatulent
Mama's boy
Drunken disaster
You're a son of a whore
 
Deep in the high that does nothing but fall
I loved you too much if I loved you at all
I look down at the sky and up at the floor
Deep in the high that does nothing but fall

I know that you lied to me
I've got a memory
Long as an elephant's trunk
I'll make you remember me
Now I'm your enemy
You will regret what you've done
Think of all of the years we spent
Under this circus tent
Now I am wondering why
You'll know what I meant
It'll look like an accident
When I teach you how to fly

He flies through the air with the greatest of ease
The daring young man on the flying trapeze
His movements are graceful the girls he does please
The daring young man on the flying trapeze

Deep in the high that does nothing but fall
Swing on a wire high over it all
I loved you too much if I loved you at all
We had our time darling, that time is no more
I look down at the sky and up at the floor
Deep in the high that does nothing but fall

credits

from Love, Crime & Other Trouble, released February 22, 2015
Ellia Bisker: vocals & ukulele
Don Godwin: tuba
Corn Mo: accordion & piano
Jeff Morris: vocals & guitar
Jerome Morris: drums

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Charming Disaster Brooklyn, New York

Charming Disaster is a goth-folk duo based in Brooklyn, NY, formed in 2012 by Ellia Bisker and Jeff Morris. Inspired by the macabre humor of Edward Gorey and Tim Burton, the murder ballads of the Americana tradition, and the dramatic flair of the cabaret, they write songs that tell stories about death, crime, myth, magic, folklore, and the occult. ... more

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