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[BRENT]
Side 1, Track 2. "The Camera Shop."
[BRITTAIN (ROSE)]
Excuse me?
[GELSEY (PEARL)]
Can I help you?
[BRITTAIN]
I hope so. I lost my camera.
[GELSEY]
Did someone steal it?
[BRITTAIN]
No. It got smashed.
[GELSEY]
Maybe we can repair it?
[BRITTAIN]
It got smashed and lost. The pieces are lost.
[GELSEY]
I'm sorry. Here, have some whiskey.
[BRITTAIN]
Thank you.
[GELSEY]
It was a real camera? Not a phone?
[BRITTAIN]
Not a phone. I do not like phones.
[GELSEY]
Me neither. Well, we'll get you all set up with a new camera. But sit first, and drink a bit. You need to take care of yourself.
[BRITTAIN]
Thank you.
[GELSEY]
Are you traveling?
[BRITTAIN]
Yes, from Portland.
[GELSEY]
Oh, I've been there once. They have that cool library.
[BRITTAIN]
That's Seattle.
[GELSEY]
Oh. I get them mixed up.
Did you grow up there?
[BRITTAIN]
Yes, when I was a kid.
[GELSEY]
That's nice. It's nice to have roots.
[BRITTAIN]
What about you, have you been here long?
[GELSEY]
This store has been in my family for four generations
[BRITTAIN]
Wow.
[GELSEY]
See that fiddle on the wall?
It belonged to my great-grandmother
Her name was Rose
[BRITTAIN]
Well, that's my name!
[GELSEY]
It's a beautiful name.
Old-fashioned, you don't hear it a lot anymore
[BRITTAIN]
The color is so light... what's it made of?
[GELSEY]
An old breastbone
[BRITTAIN]
Creepy...
[GELSEY]
It was the breastbone of her sister
Her name was Pearl
I'll tell you the story.
[GELSEY (PEARL WHITE)]
Rose and Pearl lived by the sea
Gathering salt by the moonlight
[GELSEY & BRITTAIN (PEARL WHITE & ROSE RED)]
And Rose loved a man who lived in the trees
Rose cried to Pearl, "Hold me tight, hold me tight"
[GELSEY]
Rose went to his treehouse
And looked at the stars through his telescope
[GELSEY & BRITTAIN]
She wanted to hold his hand
So she wrote him a poem
Signed it and sealed it
[GELSEY]
In a rice paper envelope
[BRITTAIN]
With a lily for a stamp
[GELSEY]
But the man stole her work
He was the editor of a prestigious astronomy journal
He wrote down all she saw
And published it in his name
And Rose grew to hate him
And then Pearl caught his eye
[BRITTAIN (ROSE)]
I'm a little confused, and more than a little frightened
[GELSEY (PEARL)]
It's okay, my dear
This is a circular story
[GELSEY (PEARL WHITE)]
And so Rose ran into the forest
And asked a great bear to maul the astronomer
And to turn the cruel sister into a black crow
And put the crow and the corpse in a cave
Until the crow started to starve
And she'd have no choice
But to peck out the eyes of her lover and eat them...
[BRITTAIN (ROSE)]
I don't believe any of this.
[GELSEY (PEARL)]
Don't you remember?
The bear named his price:
[BRENT (BEAR)]
One pot of honey
One piece of stardust
One secret baptism
And a photo of a ghost
[ALL]
One pot of honey
One piece of stardust
One secret baptism
And a photo of a ghost
[GELSEY]
Rose stole the honey from a soldier
[GELSEY & BRITTAIN]
She pretended to love
[GELSEY]
Stole the stardust from an ancient
[GELSEY & BRITTAIN]
She pretended to care
[GELSEY]
And for the baptism
She stole a baby
From it's mother
A frightened teenager in a mansion
[GELSEY & BRITTAIN]
And took the child into the sea
And the child was blessed
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