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Artist/Band: Phil Ochs
Lyrics for Song: Miranda
Lyrics for Album: Pleasures Of The Harbor [2000]



Do you have a problem,


Would you like someone to solve them,


Would you like someone to share in your misery?


Now, I don't know the answer, but I know a flamenco dancer


Who will dance for you if you will dance for me





[Chorus:]


Her name's Miranda


She's a Rudolph Valentino fan


And she doesn't claim to understand


She bakes brownies for the boys in the band.





Early Sunday morning


When the sermon lines are forming


And Saturday night is the memories that it gave.


She's busy in the pantry, far away from Elmer Gantry


Who is busy baking souls that he may save.


Everybody's soul but Miranda (Chorus)


The dice of death are calling


While the truck of time is falling


By the thumb stuck out on the highway of the years.


The tollgate at the turnpike is ignored by those who hitch-hike


And the Howard Johnson food is made of fear


But not Miranda (Chorus)


The sun burnt skin is peeling


On the doctors who are healing


And the license plates are laughing on the car.


The pain is so exciting


And everyone's inviting


You to look upon their operation scars.


But not Miranda





(Chorus)


T


he condiments are clashing


While commercial planes are crashing


And the music of the evening is so sweet


Now fully in agreement


Oh, their feet have found the cement


And they all believe the signs are on the street


Her name's Miranda





(Chorus)





In the bar we're gin and scotching


While the FBI is watching


They are tape recording every other word


The bartender is bleeding


Pardon me, I just was leaving


as another clever voice repeats absurd


But not Miranda





(Chorus)


(repeat first verse)


Album Lyrics: Pleasures Of The Harbor [2000]


Phil Ochs
"Pleasures Of The Harbor [2000]"


1. Miranda
2. The Party