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Artist/Band: Handsome Family
Lyrics for Song: Lake Geneva
Lyrics for Album: Other Songs - Handsome Family



You are crouched before the fire

In a state park by the highway

And through the heavy pine trees

Ten-ton trucks go groaning by



Like the screams of your Aunt Barbara

Who went crazy in the '70's

Wrote poems to Jimmy Carter

But forgot to feed her kids



But, it's the first time you're together

Since he got out of the hospital

Raccoons in the darkness

Drag off your hot dog buns



But, you're happy just to lie there

In your plastic tent from Wal-Mart

Like sticks and fallen dead leaves

To feed the fire of the world



Because which is more important

To comfort an old woman

Or see visions of the heavens

In the stumps of fallen trees?



Albert Einstein trembled

When he saw that time was water

Seeping through the rafters

To put out this burning world



Next morning you're at Waffle House

Toast and eggs and hash browns

Truckers chain-smoke Camels

Over plastic cups of juice



And you remember how he cried

When they strapped him to the stretcher

Convinced his arms were burning

With electricity from heaven



You remember how he told you

That black holes were like Jesus

And the crucifix was a battery

that filled the air with fire


Album Lyrics: Other Songs - Handsome Family


Handsome Family
"Other Songs - Handsome Family"


1. 3-Legged Dog
2. A Dark Eye
3. Bury Me Here
4. Famous Blue Raincoat
5. I Fell
6. Lake Geneva
7. Last Night I Went Out Walking
8. My Beautiful Bride
9. Stalled
10. The Snow White Diner
11. Tin Foil
12. Where The Birch Trees Lean
13. Winnebago Skeletons
14. Everything That Rises Must Converge
15. Grandmother Waits For You
16. So Much Wine