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	Current version of Tindersticks Lyrics My Sister (http://www.mp3lyrics.org/t/tindersticks/my-sister/) Current version of the lyrics						Version 1 of Tindersticks Lyrics My Sister (http://www.mp3lyrics.org/t/tindersticks/my-sister/v1.html) Version 1 of the lyrics
1	Do you remember my sister?						Do you remember my sister? How many mistakes did	1
2	How many mistakes did she make						she make with those never blinking eyes? I	2
3	With those never blinking eyes?						couldn't work it out. I swear she could read your	3
4	I couldn't work it out						mind, your life, the depths of your soul at one	4
5							glance. Maybe she was stripping herself away,	5
6	I swear she could read your mind						saying	6
1	Your life, the depths of your soul at one glance							1
7	Maybe she was stripping herself away, saying						Here I am, this is me I am yours and everything	7
8							about me, everything you see... If only you look	8
9	Here         I am, this is me						hard enough I never could. Our life was a	9
10	I am yours and everything about me						pillow-fight. We'd stand there on the quilt, our	10
11	Everything you see if only you look hard enough						hands clenched ready. Her with her milky teeth, so	11
12	I never could						late for her age, and a Stanley knife in her hand.	12
13							She sliced the tyres on my bike and I couldn't	13
14	Our life was a pillow fight						forgive her.	14
2	We'd stand there on the quilt							2
15	Our hands clenched ready						She went blind at the age of five. We'd stand at	15
16	Her with her milky teeth						the bedroom window and she'd get me to tell her	16
17							what I saw. I'd describe the houses opposite, the	17
18	So late for her age						little patch of grass next to the path, the gate	18
19	And a Stanley knife in her hand						with its rotten hinges forever wedged open that	19
20	She sliced the tires on my bike						Dad was always going to fix. She'd stand there	20
21	And                  I couldn't forgive her						quiet for a moment. I thought she was trying to	21
22							develop the images in her own head. Then she'd	22
23	She went blind at the age of five						say:	23
3	We'd stand at the bedroom window							3
24	And she'd get me to tell her what I saw						I can see little twinkly stars, like Christmas	24
25	I'd describe the houses opposite						tree lights in faraway windows. Rings of brightly	25
26	The little patch of grass next to the path						coloured rocks floating around orange and mustard	26
27							planets. I can see huge tiger striped fishes	27
28	The gate with its rotten hinges forever wedged						chasing tiny blue and yellow dashes, all tails and	28
29	Open that Dad was always going to fix						fins and bubbles. I'd look at the grey house	29
30	She'd stand there quiet for a moment						opposite, and close the curtains. She burned down	30
31	I thought       she was trying to develop						the house when she was ten. I was away camping	31
32	The images in her own head, then she'd say						with the scouts. The fireman said                        she'd been	32
33							smoking in bed - the old story, I thought. The cat	33
34	I can see little twinkly stars						and our mum died in the flames, so Dad took us to	34
35	Like Christmas Tree lights in faraway windows						stay with our Aunt in the country. He went back to	35
36	Rings of brightly colored rocks						London to find us a new house. We never saw him	36
37	Floating around orange and mustard planets						again.	37
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38	I can see huge tiger striped fishes						On her thirteenth birthday she fell down the well	38
39	Chasing tiny blue         and yellow dashes						in our Aunt's garden and broke her head. She'd	39
40	All tails and fins and bubbles						been drinking heavily. On her recovery her sight	40
41	I'd look at the gray house opposite and close the curtains						returned, a fluke of nature everyone said. That's	41
42							when she said she'd never blink again. I would	42
43	She burned down the house when she was ten						tell her                   when she started at me, with her eyes	43
44	I was away camping with                   the scouts						wide and watery, that they reminded me of the well	44
45	The fireman said she'd been smoking in bed						she fell into. She liked this, it made her laugh.	45
5	The old story, I thought							5
46							She moved in with a gym teacher when she was	46
47	The cat and our mum died in the flames						fifteen, all muscles he was. He lost his job when	47
48	So Dad took us to stay with our Aunt in the country						it all came out, and couldn't get another one. Not	48
49	He went back to London to find us a new house						in that kind of small town. Everybody knew	49
50	We never saw him again						everyone else's business. My sister would hold her	50
51							head high, though. She said she was in love. They	51
52	On her thirteenth birthday she fell down						were together for five years until one day he lost	52
53	The well in our Aunt's garden and broke her head						his temper. He hit over the back of the neck with	53
54	She'd been drinking heavily on her recovery her sight						his bullworker. She lost the use of the right side	54
55	Returned a fluke of nature everyone said						of her body. He got three years and was out in	55
56							fifteen months. We saw him a while later, he was	56
57	That's when she said she'd never blink again						coaching a non-league football team in a Cornwall	57
58	I would tell her when she started at me						seaside town. I don't think he recognized her. My	58
59	With her eyes wide and watery that they reminded						sister had put on a lot of weight from being in a	59
60	Me of the well she fell into, she liked this, it made her laugh						chair all the time. She'd get me to stick pins and	60
61							stub out cigarettes in her right hand. She'd laugh	61
62	She moved in with a gym teacher						like mad because it didn't hurt. Her left hand was	62
63	When she was fifteen all muscles he was						pretty good though. We'd have arm wrestling	63
64	He lost his job when it all came out						matches, I'd have to use both arms and she'd still	64
65	And couldn't get another one						beat me.	65
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66	Not in that kind of small town						We buried her when she was 32. Me and my Aunt, the	66
67	Everybody knew everyone else's business						vicar, and the man who dug the hole. She said she	67
68	My sister would hold her head high, though						didn't want to be cremated and wanted a cheap	68
69	She said she was in love						coffin so the worms could get to her quickly. She	69
70							said she liked the idea of it, though I thought it	70
71	They were together for five years						was because of what happened to the cat, and our	71
72	Until one day he lost his temper						mum.	72
7	He hit her over the back of the neck with his bull-worker							7
8	She lost the use of the right side of her body							8
9								9
10	He got three years and was out in fifteen months							10
11	We saw him a while later, he was coaching							11
12	A non-league football team in a Cornwall seaside town							12
13	I don't think he recognized her							13
14								14
15	My sister had put on a lot of weight							15
16	From being in a chair all the time							16
17	She'd get me to stick pins							17
18	And stub out cigarettes in her right hand							18
19								19
20	She'd laugh like mad because it didn't hurt							20
21	Her left hand was pretty good though							21
22	We'd have arm wrestling matches							22
23	I'd have to use both arms and she'd still beat me							23
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25	We buried her when she was 32, me and my Aunt							25
26	The vicar and the man who dug the hole							26
27	She said she didn't want to be cremated and wanted							27
28	A cheap coffin so the worms could get to her quickly							28
29	She said she liked the idea of it, though I thought it was							29
30	Because of what happened to the cat and our mum							30

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