raggedy ann came out to play   kittened a thin disguise against the day   painted a face across the mask   victim of the looking glass:    store windows are cruel   mannequin charms outshine her own   running away from her reflection home   hangin her head behind the door   sleepin on the kitchen floor      in glorious dreams    she walks outside her skin   her face so fine, her waist so thin   her voice like chimes and mandolins   beautiful phantom doll   saturday night on circus street   beating a long and ill-conceived retreat   carnival barkers bar her way   she never hears a word they say      in glorious dreams    she strolls, the boys beseech   the venus queen of venice beach   so near, so ever out of reach   beautiful phantom doll      midnight, the struggle is over   rise up, lily-white delicate shoulders   outside, the poets all know her    all of her children are waiting…      beggars and wrecks line junkyard lanes   tiffany slippers click-clack through the rain   rickety bones and sheer chiffon   dancin on the mayor’s lawn      in glorious dreams    they glide through gilded rooms   the drakes and gravely pale dragoons   the wasted daughters of the moon   beautiful phantom doll      raggedy andy wrote this song   scribbled it here where oceans meet the dawn   scuttled away on hansen claws   cinderella sailors draw      on glorious dreams   sunrise, she spins her spells   on rising tides of wishing wells   on aphrodite lotus shells   beautiful phantom doll