Written at the Dark Songs Festival in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, "Morella" is based on an Edgar Allan Poe short story of the same name.
lyrics
MORELLA
Andrea Wittgens, Corinne Lee, Fred Young
Once was a lady Morella
Skin like a porcelain doll
Songs from her lips drive a man to the tip top
Teeter on the edge of her magic breath
He marries the songbird Morella
But soon it’s a syrup gone sour
She bends him in spells with tonic she sells
As romances but these trances are just murderous advances
Morella, you will have the last laugh
Tick Tock, your voice it never stops
Morella from the lips of a babe
You call me
Call me
You’re losing your luster, Morella
Laughing from your deathbed you say
“You hate me in life but you’ll love me in death”
What a curious crumb from a last breath
Morella, you will have the last laugh
Tick Tock, your voice it never stops
Morella from the lips of a babe
You call me
Call me
Left you a daughter peculiar
Sings from the tongue of her mother
A child with no name til the baptism day
To the ear of the priest returns the deceased
Morella, you will have the last laugh
Tick Tock, your voice it never stops
Morella from the lips of a babe
You call me
Call me
Morella, you will have the last laugh
Tick Tock, your voice it never stops
Morella from the lips of a babe
You call me
Call me
You call me
Call me
You call me
Call me
credits
from Girl In A Box,
released October 11, 2016
Morella (written by Andrea Wittgens/Corinne Lee/Fred Young)
Andrea Wittgens: vocals, wurli
Dave LeBolt: orchestration
Geoff Stanfield, Jimm McIver: additional vocals
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