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Odious Odense - Stephin Merritt

Odious Odense

City of my birth

Happy that day when ya

Vanish from the earth

Me for Copenhagen

Me for Greece and Rome

Every day's an adventure

When you're not home

And in a thousand years from today

Americans will come to play

In giant flying metal birds to

View our beauteous antiques

And hear some fearsome German words

And tour all Europe in two weeks

A marble marvel ev'ry hour

A stunning country ev'ry day

They'll lope up Copenhagen's tower

But they will never pay for

Odious Odense

City of my birth

Happy that day when ya

Vanish from the earth

Me for Copenhagen

Me for Greece and Rome

Every day's an adventure

When you're not home

And as a new spring dawns

Hail to thee the muse of our new century

She wears a Garibaldi hat

Yet cares for Aristophanes

Part artist part aristocrat

And lover of cacophonies

She telegraphs her laughter

From her rococo locomotive

Well might some write that she is dumb

But she would never live in

Odious Odense

City of my birth

Happy that day when ya

Vanish from the earth

Me for Copenhagen

Me for Greece and Rome

Every day's an adventure

When you're not home