The Wild Mouse The singer imagines the boundary between life and death as an amusement park ride, then conjectures communicating with ‘little dead souls.’
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The Wild Mouse (Doyle/Kelley 2016)
Verse 1 Where do we find the Rim of Life? Where do we find the Rim of Death? The exact point where the living can touch ghostly ones without breath, tiny dead souls, so forgiving.
Chorus Your rim . . . . It’s a joyride, it’s a joust, careening soul, a spiral, thrilling ride, The Wild Mouse, you flirt with them awhile, it’s nothing you’ve been fed, but they tell us instead about a day you can re-pay.
Life and Death are not separate, they just look that way.
Verse 2 Little souls who would flirt with us, Little souls who would flirt with us at the arc where our somber hearts describe the universe of us, drawing the living soul in parts.
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Bridge Ooo, Ooo, the Rim of Life, Ooo, Ooo, the Rim of Death, Ooo, Ooo, pure baby’s breath, Ooo, Ooo, the Rim of Life, Ooo, Ooo, the Rim of Death
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Chorus Your rim . . . . It’s a joyride, it’s a joust, careening soul, a spiral, thrilling ride, The Wild Mouse, you flirt with them awhile, it’s nothing you’ve been fed, but they tell us instead about a day you can re-pay.
Life and Death are not separate, they just look that way.
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