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What Do You Do With a Corpse (Edgar Allan Poe)

from Live from the Bushwick Book Club by Charming Disaster

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Inspired by the collected works of Edgar Allan Poe

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Did you ever have a day when you're trying to drink
And your favorite cat walks in and your tiny heart sinks
Because just yesterday you hung it from a string
And now your wife's in the way when you got an axe you're trying to swing

Did you ever meet someone with a filmy blue eye
And when he looks at you, it's kinda hard to describe
You even like this man, but you know he's got to die
So you carry out a plan in the middle of the night.

Do you chop it up
And burn the bits
Or throw it in a well or
Do you pack it in a box and ship it
Dig a grave down in the cellar
What do you do with a corpse
Don’t you worry about the smell
And also how do you know
When someone’s dead
Sometimes it’s hard to tell

When your friend’s beloved sister dies one tragic afternoon
Do you hold off on the burial and lock her in a room
On a dark and stormy night when she rises from the tomb
You will realize she was only in a cataleptic swoon

When you have a little problem you don’t want folks to find
Or perhaps you’ve been insulted and revenge is on your mind
Just go down to the basement in the back behind the wine
Consider some home masonry to cover up your crime

Do you chop it up...

One morning in cool blood
I stopped the drumbeat of a heart
And never have I slept so very well
You know I am not mad
Because my senses are acute
I can hear things in heaven earth and hell

Were you ever taken over by that fiend intemperance
Were you ever so influenced by that gin-nurtured malevolence
To offer your own wife a taste of personal violence
Till you know you have destroyed all hope of God's mercy or innocence

Don't you hate it when a sick man's in your mesmerizing gaze
And though he passes in the night, you got him twitching for many days
And then he gives you a nasty fright when he croaks "let me die please"
Once you release him from his state he turns to goo like marmalade

Do you chop it up...

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from Live from the Bushwick Book Club, released September 3, 2017
Recorded live at Pete's Candy Store, Brooklyn, on September 4, 2017.
Originally performed at Union Hall, Brooklyn, on January 2, 2013.
Thanks to Susan Hwang and Bushwick Book Club
www.bushwickbookclub.com

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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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