Your Only Doll (Dora) - Laura Marling

I fell into the street, poison in my veins

Clambered to my feet and into the night again

Back to my home, back to my owner

Who screams at my tardiness

Put his hands to the sky

And says, what can I do with a girl

If she refuses to be mine?

In his bed I am queen, unobtainable me

Sexual being, human with feelings

The two are not me

The two will not be mine

And what can you do with a girl

If she refuses to be mine?

Put his hand on my shirt

Hand on my face

Head to the wall

When you’ve broken your only doll

And what will you do with a girl

If she refuses to be alive?

And you’ve broken your only doll

And what will you do with a girl

If she’s refusing to be alive?

There’s a house across the river but, alas, I cannot swim

And a garden of such beauty that the flowers seem to grin

There’s a house across the river, but alas, I cannot swim

I’ll live my life regretting that I never jumped in

There’s a boy across the river with short black curly hair

He wants to be my lover and I want to be his peer

There’s a boy across the river but, alas, I cannot swim

And I never will get to put my arms around him

There’s a life across the river that was meant for me

Instead I live my life in constant misery

There’s a life across the river, but I do not see

Why I should please those who will never be pleased

There is gold across the river, but I don’t want none

There is gold across the river, but I don’t want none

Gold is fleeting, gold is fickle, gold is fun

Gold is fleeting, gold is fickle, gold is fun

There is gold across the river, but I don’t want none

I would rather be dry than held up by a golden gun

Saying, work more, earn more, live more

Have more fun