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Mary, Queen of Scotch

from Berliners by Surprise Flapjacks

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Mary, Queen of Scotch -- she held us swilling in her hand. She took a drink and called for crutches when she could not stand. Mary, then your wish was your command. Mary, I would love to help you land.

Mary crossed in, giving few shits, from a distant land. Was it Boston, Massachusetts, or was it Samarkand? Mary gave us fodder for a span. Mary, get your water where you can.

You're not one to tarry. So why so contrary? Go roam in your prairie. It's like home, but not very.

Mary!

Mary was an only daughter, or wished that she was one. Every dish we ever brought her she would adore or shun. She actively collected only sons and asked if their dissection would be fun.

It got bloody for Mary, and scary. What a cold missionary! What she told us to carry, we carried, and god knows what's buried.

Mary!

Where you'll go I don't know. On this globe -- I don't know. Does it know where you'll go? I don't know. Is it cold? Sometimes I hope that it's cold.

Mary's known now by her absence, a gift upon the land. The poison's slowed like laws on absinthe lifting up their ban. In the story of her looms no shadow's hand. Yes, and morning glories bloom upon command.

So get thee to: Paris; a bottle of sherry; an apothecary; or, better yet, spare me.

Mary!

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from Berliners, released September 29, 2011

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Surprise Flapjacks Durham, North Carolina

Surprise Flapjacks makes music about communists, existential crises, zombies, and lovesickness (and, of course, zombie lovesickness). The Carrboro and Durham-based five-piece creates melodic, energetic pop awash in sugary hooks and group harmonies, shot through with nervous surrealism, and tempered with submerged melancholy. ... more

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