A pistol shot at five o'clock
The bells of heaven ring
Tell me what you done it for
No I won't tell you a thing

Yesterday I begged you
Before I hit the ground
All I leave behind me
Is only what I found

If you can abide it
Let the hurdy gurdy play
Stranger ones have come by here
Before they flew away

I will not condemn you
Nor yet would I deny
I would ask the same of you
But failing, will not die

Take up your china doll
It's only fractured
And a little nervous from the fall
La la la la la la la



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China Doll [Studio Outtake] Lyrics as written by Robert C. Hunter Jerome J. Garcia

Lyrics © Kanjian Music, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

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    It's about a murder or betrayal

    the words of the dead to the killer who offered no explaination "No I won't tell you a thing."

    it's about both moving on afterward

    Matt Holckon November 22, 2007   Link

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