Decemberists - Shiny lyrics

By the bumper cars

In the pretty twining light

I may have gone too far

I may have gone too much, too long

I'm a dull and witless boy

At the after bars

Think I was sullied by a dream

In the killing jar

You and me at war, at arms

All falling in embrace

Tell me why you lied

And what it is you do to keep your eyes all shiny

A tawny gypsy girl

Sleeping blanketed by stars

Beneath the tilt-a-whirl

Where we were coyly caught alone

All fumbling with your blouse

Tell me why you lied

And what it is you do to keep your eyes all shiny

And in the rollercoaster din

By the parachutes in saddle shoes

You break your shins

But I have never seen two eyes so shiny

And the sullen beery swine

Who try to tangle you

In sullen beery balls of twine

Have they ever seen two eyes so shiny?

Boys in denim vests

Smoking cigarettes between

The bootblack fingertips

Sweetly tipsy by the half light

The light and the half light

Tell me why you lied

And what it is you do to keep your eyes all shiny