The Fiery Furnaces - Oh Sweet Woods lyrics

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The Fiery Furnaces - Oh Sweet Woods lyrics

I was in Tahoe, on the California side, waiting in the lobby at 665 1/2 Frontage Road when two extra-blond short sleeve bu*ton-down white-shirt blue-tie mystery Mormons came in and put this music on: came in and took me by the arm, and as they had me marching through the parking lot- and as they were marching through the parking lot- they blew into their shirt-pocket microphones like this: And then they drove me to an Albertson's outside of Boise and took me into a back room. and they said they wanted to balance my checkbook; and they said they wanted to organize my receipts and itemize my expenses and that I had the key to a safety deposit box, with treasury bonds and the key to another safety deposit box where I'd stashed away the only pewter pocket watch that ever belonged to Joseph Smith's Great-Great Uncle's Brother-in-Law. And I said, "You've got the wrong Eleanor Friedberger." And then they sang at me like this

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