Phantom Doll lyrics

Raggedy Ann came out to play

Kittened a thin disguise against the day

Painted a face across the mask

Victim of the looking glass:

Store windows are cruel

Mannequin charms outshine her own

Running away from her reflection home

Hangin' her head behind the door

Sleepin' on the kitchen floor

In glorious dreams

She walks outside her skin

Her face so fine, her waist so thin

Her voice like chimes and mandolins

Beautiful phantom doll

Saturday night on circus street

Beating a long and ill-conceived retreat

Carnival barkers bar her way

She never hears a word they say

In glorious dreams

She strolls, the boys beseech

The Venus queen of Venice Beach

So near, so ever out of reach

Beautiful phantom doll

Midnight, the struggle is over

Rise up, lily-white delicate shoulders

Outside, the poets all know her

All of her children are waiting

Beggars and wrecks line junkyard lanes

Tiffany slippers click-clack through the rain

Rickety bones and sheer chiffon

Dancin' on the mayor's lawn

In glorious dreams

They glide through gilded rooms

The drakes and gravely pale dragoons

The wasted daughters of the moon

Beautiful phantom doll

Raggedy Andy wrote this song

Scribbled it here where oceans meet the dawn

Scuttled away on hansen claws

Cinderella sailors draw

On glorious dreams

Sunrise, she spins her spells

On rising tides of wishing wells

On Aphrodite lotus shells

Beautiful phantom doll