Ragtime

Ragtime - Neko Case

Last night late I was watching it snow

It always goes sideways in the city

It comes right out from the streetlights you know

Pumped out by an engine deep inside the earth's core

It goes sideways in the city

Cover the shapes and erase the date

This could be any evening in any place

The blizzard blows from left to right

Which is funny cause

The piano's playing "Summertime" from 1935

So sounds the alarm of Ragtime

It's Ragtime keeping time

Brave to the waves of its residue

Its laughter from a marbled room

The white-crowned sounds of possible

The sound that lures me

It says "Don't you hurry

Don't you worry kid we'll be seeing you

We'll see you when you're ready "

Ragtime turning out the sun and moon

Its gravity is soothing

It winds me in a sleek cocoon

I'll reveal myself when I'm ready

I'll reveal myself invincible soon