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Lost and alone, a stranger in my home
As I tried to decide how I should end my life
Something quick and painless
Jumped on the tracks and fell right through the cracks
On my own in this world, I couldn't find a girl
One to hold and cherish

Then suddenly I found a recipe
For a cake I could bake, a bride for me to take
I'll call her Sally Shortcake
Expedience, I lacked ingredients
So I just improvised with raisins for her eyes
And a strawberry nose yeah!

And she'll taste like shortcake
But how long does it take?

We faced our first hurdle when the cream began to curdle
The raisins once her eyes, made nests for the fruit flies
And when I held her hand she melted like quicksand
But love is blind and certainly quite hard to find

Sally Shortcake's sweet, swept me off my feet
Made my life complete, now there's nothing else I need
Sally Shortcake's sweet, pretty and petite
Such tremendous treats, watch her slipping through my sheets

But cake every day is bad for the gut
And her lecherous ways were driving me nuts
Sally went stale and I was a sponge
Our love was to fail and turn into gunge

Wait wait wait Sally Shortcake-cake-cake
Sally Shortcake-cake-cake
Wait Sally Shortcake-cake-cake-cake
(Come back Sally!)

Sally played around with every boy in town
I called her a tart and she just tore my heart apart
I knew it was soon over with me and this pavlova
She could not defrost but it's better to have loved and lost

Sally Shortcake's sweet, she swept me off my feet
But our eyes don't meet, now there's something else she needs
Sally Shortcake's sweet, she's pretty and petite
As we face defeat for we couldn't stand the heat

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from Teatime Terrors, released July 16, 2021

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Monsieur Pompier's Travelling Freakshow Dublin, Ireland

Monsieur Pompier makes music about inside-out cats, weird doctors and banana boys. Having toured all over Europe since their inception in 2017, the group signed to Cleopatra Records in 2021.

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