The Curse Lyrics - So Runs The World Away - Josh Ritter

He opens his eyes, falls in love at first sight 

With the girl in the doorway 

What beautiful lines, how full of life 

After thousands of years what a face to wake up to 

He holds back a sigh as she touches his arm 

She dusts off the bed where till now he's been sleeping 

Under miles of stone, the dried fig of his heart 

Under scarab and bone starts back to its beating 

She carries him home in a beautiful boat 

He watches the sea from a porthole in stowage 

He can hear all she says as she sits by his bed 

Then one day his lips answer her in her own language 

The days quickly pass, he loves making her laugh 

The first time he moves it's her hair that he touches 

She asks "Are you cursed?" He says "I think that I'm cured" 

Then he talks of the Nile and the girls in bull rushes 

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In New York he is laid in a glass-covered case 

He pretends he is dead, people crowd round to see him 

But each night she comes round, and the two wander down 

The halls of the tomb that she calls a museum 

Often he stops to rest, but then less and less 

Then it's her that looks tired, staying up asking questions 

He learns how to read from the papers that she 

Is writing about him and he makes corrections 

It's his face on her book and more and more come to look 

Families from Iowa, upper West-siders 

Then one day it's too much, he decides to get up 

And as chaos ensues, he walks outside to find her 

She's using a cane, and her face looks too pale 

But she's happy to see him, as they walk he supports her 

She asks "Are you cursed?" but his answer's obscured 

In a sandstorm of flashbulbs and rowdy reporters 

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Such reanimation, the two tour the nation 

He gets out of limos, he meets other women 

He speaks of her fondly, their nights in the museum 

But she's just one more rag now he's dragging behind him 

She stops going out, she just lies there in bed 

In hotels in whatever towns they are speaking 

Then her face starts to set and her hands start to fold 

And one day the dry fig of her heart stops its beating 

Long ago on the ship, she asked "Why pyramids?" 

He said "Think of them as an immense invitation" 

She asks "Are you cursed?" He says "I think that I'm cured" 

Then he kissed her and hoped that she'd forget that question