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I'm Afraid Of Japan

from He Poos Clouds by Owen Pallett

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    Domino is pleased to announce a remastered reissue of Owen Pallett’s early catalogue. Pallett has built a reputation on live virtuosity, as violinist for the many local Toronto bands, followed by the wild looped-violin songwriting solo project. Has a Good Homeserves as an introduction (and features many of Pallett’s best-known songs), and the follow-up He Poos Cloudsis a string quartet album based on the Dungeons & Dragons School of Magic, and was awarded the inaugural Polaris Music Prize.

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lyrics

Nippon, won’t you take me into your arms and make me 

Into a sergeant, emboldened and enlargened 

For some the spell was shafted, but I am in your sway 

Yes, I am still enchanted by the ways of yesterday 



To the public park, I walk my new wife 

In the summer heat, I lose my head 

I tell her that the army needs a modus operandi 

I tell her where I really went that evening in Chelsea 

I tell her I don’t think I’ll last another single night 

She says “Yeah, right.” 



If I do it with an ice pick, will I come back as a jock? 

If I fast until starvation, will I be born again a Christian? 

I hear that death by burning means returning as a girl 

But only by seppuku can I retain my virtue 



But all my efforts have only made 

An army of greedy gays 

Will no one read "The Sound of Waves"? 

Oh, oh, oh, I am afraid

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from He Poos Clouds, released June 13, 2006

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