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The Little Flower Girl



Jethro Tull - The Little Flower Girl - Текст песни

Down at the church the flower girl sits. Legs innocent, apart. 
I make the picture puzzle fit to start your heart. 
Painted sister stopped beside. A word upon her saintly lip. 
Perhaps admonishing the child inside the open slip. 

I don't know where she might go when she runs home at night. 
It's for the best: I wouldn't rest when I turned out the light. 
No little flower girl singing in my troubled dream---- 
just an old man's model in a pose from a magazine. 

I have touched that face a dozen times before. And I have let my pencil run. 
Laid down washes on a foreign shore, under a hot and foreign sun. 
My best sable brushes drift the soft inside of her arm. 
Her chin I tilt, her breasts I lift. I mean no harm. 

I close the door. She is no more until the next appointed hour. 
Northeastern light push back the night: painted promises in store. 
No little flower girl singing in my troubled dream---- 
just an old man's model in a pose from a magazine. 

Down at the church my flower girl sits. Legs innocent, apart. 
I make the picture puzzle fit to start your heart. 
My golden sable brushes drift the soft inside of her arm. 
Her chin I tilt, her breasts I lift. I mean no harm. 
I mean no harm. I mean…………….
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