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Oh cadaver, oh cadaver
You never had her, never had her!
She sleeps in the morgue tonight
Lying on a sterile table
When the doctors cut her up
They’ll do it to the best that they are able


There’s a lady
From Poughkeepsie (New York! New York!)
She lost her legs in a farming accident
Now she walks around with hers
Didn’t you dream about them wrapped around your head?

c-a-d-a-v-e-r, c-a-d-a-v-e-r


You shook her hand once at a Christmas party
It was alabaster white and thin and dainty
But now it’s grafted to the forearm of a foreman in Nantucket
And it sickens you to think of what he does with it

Singing oh cadaver, oh cadaver
You never had her, never had her!


No she never traveled much, never much reason to leave
Now she lives in eight different states and four foreign countries
If you could get her back you’d tell her she made a big mistake
You’d have taken her anywhere, but she ignored you, she ignored you


Her eyes they were the softest sea-green blue
You looked at them and you looked again
And once they looked back at you
But now they’re sitting in the sockets of a boy blind since birth
So wrapped up in their beauty you couldn’t see what they were really worth


Oh cadaver, oh cadaver
c-a-d-a-v-e-r spells
r-e-g-r-e-t-s spells
d-i-s-g-u-s-t spells
s-a-c-r-i-f-i-c-e

Oh cadaver, oh cadaver
You never had her, never had her!

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from The Tick of the Clock, the Beat in the Chest, released February 23, 2010

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Felix Obelix Pittsboro, North Carolina

Felix Obelix is the avant-pop project of Wendy Spitzer. The twisted hits from unpopular Big-Note piano books that never were.

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