[INTRO] Hey… hey… watch her eyes… [VERSE 1] Fox in a fur coat standing by the stove smoke in her lipstick snow inside her throat Crow-men at the doorway boots all black with mud someone killed the music someone wants blood [PRE-CHORUS] And the old ones nod slow through the sauna steam like elk beneath headlights frozen in the beams [CHORUS] Her name is Pomperipossa queen of the crooked pines she pours the black moon coffee while the accordion cries Her name is Pomperipossa every autumn night she hosts the dance she hosts the night beneath her crooked candlelight [VERSE 2] Doe-eyed waitress hands smell like pine wolf grin preacher drunk on homemade wine Ravens on the powerlines watch us from above everybody sweating everybody wants love [PRE-CHORUS] And the floorboards shake hard like bear-heavy feet all the village daughters moving in the heat [CHORUS] Her name is Pomperipossa queen of the crooked pines she pours the black moon coffee while the accordion cries Her name is Pomperipossa every autumn night she hosts the dance she hosts the night beneath her crooked candlelight [BRIDGE] Moth-heart children circle the fire accordion crying higher and higher Cold lake women sing through their teeth someone pulls me under someone underneath [CHORUS] Her name is Pomperipossa all the old folk know once you hear her laughing you never leave the snow Her name is Pomperipossa every year we ride back into the forest where the black birds hide She hosts the dance she hosts the night beneath her crooked candlelight [OUTRO] Pomperipossa… Pomperipossa…
