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5. American Gothic

by Nancy Rost

(c) 2006 Sesquipedalian Publishing ASCAP

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Nancy: piano, vocals

Tracy: electric guitar

Put your black dress on and your black lipstick too

We'll go strolling down the avenue

Discussing morbid topics

Let's do something gothic

I love your ancient soul in its teenage incarnation

You go to my head like strong libation

You intoxi-

cate me, darling, you're so gothic

Parenthetically

Peripatetically

As we walk

We'll be contrarian

And sesquipedalian

And make the neighbors squawk!

I'm your work of body art

You pierce me, love, like a spike through the heart

I find the pain cathartic

And oh, so very gothic

Classes get out at three

Come away with me

Down the hall

Your face is greenish-white

In the fluorescent light

Of Pleasant Valley Mall

I'll feed you cinnamon rolls, my thorny rose

We'll hit Glamour Shots and strike a pose

Looking misanthropic

Call it American Gothic