Everything you say makes me turn grey I can’t stand the faces you wear on yours through the day Tattoos of Mary, peace signs and charms Your eyes are a grave he made into his backyard
Diamonds are hanging from strands of your hair Everyone loves you and everyone shares Your skin is a carnival, open hands untie But no one can catch you in the middle of the night
You’re a drugstore, you’re a savior, You bind up our wounds, you’re the future You’re a hero, you’re a sorrow You’re midnight’s velcro moon
You take best friends as lovers you keep them so close While you love one the other is holding a rose You’re so free and so beautiful they’re sure to recall When they’ve lost you and each other and have nothing at all
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You’re a lover, a story, the faintest tragedy The city is burning and you’re underneath
O darlin’ I’ve got his voice on my tape recorder You took the boy and made him a steel hearted monster You were playing you’re playing dumb twenty-nothing and Now there’s a fracture where once there was something