Baby take a walk in toy land Be my hero play the part I'm falling down hard from salvation Come protect this china heart Though my party dress is torn
When I was young I believe in everything I turned my rag man into king And I carved him a soft world from hard stone With a laurel crown and a velvet
To the east the factories stand Like fire-breathing dragons against the sky And from their throats a scarlet river Burns itself into smoky lullabies
Oh baby tell me stories About those pretty worlds Who will deliver us from blame Who will walk free Who will walk in chains And when the sky is falling
I never wanted nothing Baby you know it's true I never wanted nothing The way I wanted you I kept me hands clean I walked a good line I knew someday
The night is falling Under the vesper bells lonely chime And I ain't nobody's valentine But I ain't sorry for wanting the things That you cannot give
They say there's a light Through darkness shines If two hands protect that light Against the change of time You can have your gold and silver Build your
Baby don't put the sugar on me Don't talk me up so sweet Baby don't dress me in your kisses When they're not mine to keep Some boys think I'm carved
Underneath the swirling light of jasmine tea and smoke you traced my face up on the barroom wall and you tried to intimidate me as you drank your drinks
Daniel's by the jonny pump he's drunk on cheap wine he's got a monkey wrench in his hand saying he'll be prepared next time everything seemed so right
My Auntie Mabel 1953 Left her Minnesota dirt farm to see what she could see in a letter to her mother telling her what she enjoyed said there's nothing
So all that loneliness for a moment is through and now it's going to take time to find some faith for you you've got a history of crash landings coming
Oh mama there's this Spanish dancer Whose steps I follow when he comes near The red dress of temptation Over a long black slip of fear Will I fall beneath
You promised me there'd be no denials When I was weak under your spell When I feel thirsty you would not let me Take water from your well Well big black
Love? you're the one the well known pleasure? under my tongue my holy water? my gypsy rain come and find me? once again because you are everything I
Rose was a waitress for twenty years or more bringing in the change, she was heaven sent she taught me how to balance trays when I didn't know what to
Check your time plan station master and bless the 3:45 she's rolling fast and free and don't she look just like me spitting off smoke and all empty inside
Standing at your doorstep darlin' what can I do you're a part of me forever like a troublesome tattoo I lay awake at night curse your name into the dark
