Ramshackle Decadence Lyrics

Ramshackle Decadence

Lyrics, Music, Instruments, Vocals by Alan J. Lipman

Copyright 2011

Alan J. Lipman/X-Patriate Music

All Rights Reserved

Red

It's painted on

Hair up

She's fading

Ramshackle decadence

Thin as

A nylon fiber

Waves

In the light

Holding herself

Out

And up

Ramshackle decadence

She

Sent out

A message

Held up

A look

A hook

A lyre

I am here

Ramshackle decadence

Stumbles

Catches herself

Looks

At the floor

Then up

To my eyes

Reassurance

Hope

Ramshackle decadence

A sign of the mess

That

She's offering

And proudly

Softly

Spirit

Suffusing

I

This

Open

Created

I am here

(instrumental)

Here

In the

Light

Blurred

To

Cover

And

Shows instead

Beautiful

Vulnerable

Smeared

And

Tired

Wounded

And

Fired

Exactly

Right

Ramshackle decadence

No

Doubt

An

Arch

No

Doubt

A

Lance

No

Doubt

A

Chance

Of

Marching

Dancing

Through

The

Fire

No one

Could

Name

It

And

No one

Could

Claim

It

And

No one

Could

Blame

Her

Ramshackle decadence

No one

Could

Name

Her

And

No one

Could

Claim

Her

And

No one

Could

Blame

Her

Ramshackle decadence

No one

Could

Blame

Her

Ramshackle decadence

No one could blame her

Ramshackle decadence