Tracy Grammer - Phantom Doll lyrics

Raggedy Ann came out to play Kittened a thin disguise against the day Painted a face across the mask Victim of the looking gla**: Store windows are cruel Mannequin charms outshine her own Running away from her reflection home Hangin' her head behind the door Sleepin' on the kitchen floor In glorious dreams She walks outside her skin Her face so fine, her waist so thin Her voice like chimes and mandolins Beautiful phantom doll Saturday night on circus street Beating a long and ill-conceived retreat Carnival barkers bar her way She never hears a word they say In glorious dreams She strolls, the boys beseech The Venus queen of Venice Beach So near, so ever out of reach Beautiful phantom doll Midnight, the struggle is over Rise up, lily-white delicate shoulders Outside, the poets all know her All of her children are waiting Beggars and wrecks line junkyard lanes Tiffany slippers click-clack through the rain Rickety bones and sheer chiffon Dancin' on the mayor's lawn In glorious dreams They glide through gilded rooms The drakes and gravely pale dragoons The wasted daughters of the moon Beautiful phantom doll Raggedy Andy wrote this song Scribbled it here where oceans meet the dawn Scuttled away on hansen claws Cinderella sailors draw On glorious dreams Sunrise, she spins her spells On rising tides of wishing wells On Aphrodite lotus shells Beautiful phantom doll