railroad boy

Singer: magnetic fields, the

i will not sing your ugly song

i won't put on your ugly play

i cannot join your ugly priesthood

and if i die i won't come home

railroad boy of mine. i bought you crows and candelabra

and i went moth-eating with you

i held you down when you had seizures

and read to you at bedtime

railroad boy of mine. we went to see a beaver dam

we went to see a coral reef

but life is more than going to see things

and that's too bad

railroad boy of mine

railroad boy of mine.