Neko Case Lyrics
"Margaret vs. Pauline"

Everything's so easy for Pauline
Everything's so easy for Pauline
Ancient strings set feet alight
To speed to her such mild grace
No monument of tacky gold
They smoothed her hair
With cinnamon waves

And they placed an ingot in her breast to burn cool
And collected
Fate holds her firm in its cradle
And then rolls her for a tender pause to savor
Everything's so easy for Pauline

Girl with the parking lot eyes
Margaret is the fragment of a name
Her bravery is mistaken
For the thrashing in a lake
As a make-believe monster whose picture is fake

Margaret is the fragment of a name
Her love pools like a fountain
Her love steams like rain
Her jaw aches from wanting and she's sick from chlorine
But she'll never be as clean
As the cool side of satin Pauline
Pauline

Two girls ride the blue line
Two girl walk down the same street
One left a sweater sittin' on the train
And the other lost three fingers at the cannery
Everything's so easy for Pauline
For Pauline
For Pauline