Natalie Merchant - Arbor Day lyrics

[Chorus 1:] Wide open falsehood The clandestine truths Rival till the end In a series of duels Pardon the drapery language i choose [Verse 1:] "Waltz in vienna" has taught me to use Every tall room a fiction Leather bound treasure books Up to the ceiling Gold spine upon spine The guile and the treason The faith and allegiance [Chorus 1] [Verse 2:] The author grew fat to imagine His lead pen careening Gave voice to the scheming An aryan cabal to dethrone [Chorus 2:] The guile and the treason The faith and allegiance To the empire unknown [Verse 3:] The baron and his mistress Dine in fine banquet hall As rebel insurgents plot in The attic space crawl [Chorus 1] [Verse 4:] His small hand did strive To explain all the Rants and raves of A people enslaved By the can't of the shrewdest Capable men [Chorus 2][x2]