Natalie Merchant - Katrin's Fair lyrics

[Verse:] Greta's cedar hope chest is full of pamphlets Gla** shelves of romantic vignettes A journal laced with sedimentary prose Norma gathers and collects Vintage photoplays, hair combs, valentines Lillian allows the animals to scratch Leather crack and the mail collect in the box while coatings peel Agnes veiled cathedral dweller smiles with benevolent pain But it's katrina's fair tuesday morning As she with caution unlatches the flat door She alone cascades to the basement Careful not to spoil her calico printed pinafore Composite traits all mannerists All others dissipate Margauritte vigilant dwells upon frigid casements Sarah's thoughts in the velocity accusations always pierce and pa** Clara abandons her pa**ions for distastes Miss lenora p. Sinclair early for coffee in the pool "I'm resituating all your words" Capital, space, colon, & paragraph Sylvia keeps beasts in jars labeled kingdom Phylum, cla**, order, family, genus, species