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Girls of Alabaster

from Black Owls by Black Owls

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A song about Amish Girls.

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Those girls of alabaster
dark as dungeons, right as rain
with fingertips of lightning
they wrote your book on pain

They're cigarettes and scripture
unfolding layered books
flip through their dog-eared pages
fair warning feckless crooks

They've swallowed boiling rivers
charcoal timbers, stones of pride
with nothing so black to cover
the killing seasons bread divide

They hold no continence sir
for flattery in chains
those girls of alabaster
in carriage roll refrains

They've vowed to make the mending
they've prayed upon the soil
their blisters all have calloused
from years of cloven toil

They've choked down guilty verses
so bleak to snuff out dreams
yet they provide so stoically
no thorns to harken screams

Those girls of alabaster
dark as dungeons, right as rain
with fingertips of lightning
they wrote your book on pain

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from Black Owls, released May 1, 2012
Butler: Vocals
Shuttleworth: Guitars, Keys

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Black Owls Granville, Ohio

Mennonite glam rock showcasing a certain proclivity to meld the majestic with the pitifully ordinary.

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