Polaroids Lyrics

Please no more therapy Mother take care of me Piece me together with a Needle and thread
Wrap me in eiderdown Lace from your wedding gown Fold me and lay me down On your bed
Or liken me to a shoe Blackened and spit-shined through Kicking back home to you Smiling back home
Singing back home to you Laughing back home to you Dragging back home to you
And I was so wary then The ugly American Thinner than oxygen Tough as a whore
I said, you can lie to me I own what's inside of me And nothing surprises me anymore
But forests in Germany Kids in the Tuileries Broken-down fortresses In old Italy
And claiming his victory Shrouded in mystery He went running away with me
Back in our home New York Walking these streets forlorn We all in our uniforms Black and black
Doing that slouch and jive The artist must survive We've got all we need we cried And don't look back
And thinking we had it made Poised for the hit parade Knee deep in accolades The conceptual pair
But ever the malcontent He left without incident Vanished into thin air
Now I am always amazed Words can fill up a page Pages fill up the days Between him and me
But the vows that we never keep From bedrooms to business-speak Make me remember how cheap Words can be
And the letters I wrote you of Were those of the desperate stuff Like begging for love in a suicide threat
But I am too young to die Too old for a lullaby Too tired for life on the ledge
But I had a dream last night Of lovers who walked the plank Out on the edge of time Amidst ridicule
They laughed as they rocked and reeled Over the mining fields Coming to rest on this ship of fools
But he just took Polaroids Of her smile in the light Of the dawn of the menacing sky
And before they went overboard She turned and held up a card And it said Valentine