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Dress

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Release
1991
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  1. Dress
    Dress

    Put on that dress
    I’m going out dancing
    Starting off red
    Clean and sparkling, he’ll see me

    Music play make it dreamy for dancing
    There must be a way that I can dress to please him
    It’s hard to walk in the dress, it’s not easy
    I’m swinging over like a heavy loaded fruit tree

    If you put it on, if you put it on…

    It’s sad to see
    Lonely, all this lonely
    Close up my eyes
    Dreamy, dreamy music make it be alright

    Music play make it good for romancing
    Must be a way I can dress to please him
    Swing it, sway, everything’ll be alright
    But it’s feeling so damn tight tonight

    If you put it on, if you put it on…

    You pretty thing my man says
    But I bought you beautiful dresses

    Filthy tight, the dress is filthy
    I’m falling flat and my arms are empty
    Clear the way, better get it out of this room
    A fallen woman in dancing costume

    If you put it on, if you put it on…

  2. Water
    Water

    water, I’m walking on water

    nighing on eleven years
    taking it into my head
    living by the right lines
    reading what the very man said

    water, I’m walking on water

    nighing on eleven years
    taking it into my head
    Mary, Mary drop me softly
    I’ve been reading what your very man said

    nighing on eleven years
    taking it into my head
    leave my clothes on the beach
    I’m walking down into the sea

    prove it to me

    now the water to my ankles
    now the water to my knees
    think of him all waxy wings
    melted down into the sea

    Mary, Mary what your man said
    washing in all over my head
    Mary, Mary hold on tightly
    over water, under the sea

    water, I’m walking on water

  3. Dry
    Dry

    I caught it in the face
    coming around again
    I thought it was worth waiting
    you’re caught up in my hair
    wet sides from time to time
    but mostly I’m just dry

    you leave me dry

    You’ve come all this way
    no hair out of place
    you put it on the stage
    you put right in my face

    you leave me dry

    No water-well in sight
    no water at my sides
    I’m sucking on the well
    I’m sucking till I’m white

    but you leave me dry