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"foolish love"
i don't want to hold you and feel so helpless
"danny boy"
your skin is cold
"april fools"
oh what a shame that your pockets did bleed on st. valentine's
"in my arms"
you gave me all your love in one day
the boys and girls of millbrook are on a train from new york
"baby"
nothing so bright
"beauty mark"
i never had it
"barcelona"
the summer sun set a vicious circus
"matinee idol"
this is the day of the death of the matinee idol
"damned ladies"
desdemona, do not go to sleep
and why don't you ladies believe me when i'm screaming
i don't want to smell you and lose my senses
and smile in slow motion
with eyes in love
i twist like a corkscrew
the sweetness rising
i drink from the bottle, weeping
why won't you last?
why can't you last
so i will walk without care
beat my snare
look like a man who means business
go to all the poshest places
with their familiar faces
terminate all signs of weakness
oh, all for the sake of a foolish love
i will take my coffee black
never snack
hang with the wolves who are sheepish
flow through the veins of town
always frown
me and my mistress, the princess
oh, all for the sake of a foolish love
so the day noah's ark floats down park
my eyes will be simply glazed over
or better yet
i'll wear shades on sunless days
and when the sun's out, i'll stay in and slumber
oh, all for the sake of a foolish love
all for the sake of a foolish love
cause i don't want to hold you and feel so helpless
i don't want to smell you and lose my senses
and smile in slow motion
with eyes in love
but the sun shines within your hold
your hair is gold
but you see through a goldfish bowl
i feel old, sick, and tired
we walk the streets
gently staring, wondering what to do
the sun in sheets
pouring down those streets to eyes green and blue
and a ship with eight sails could come round the bend
or a heard of bulls charging stoplights red
i'd be blind
you broke my heart, danny boy
not your fault, danny boy
i was had at the doorstep
played, like a two to a four-set
had, like poor job in the bible by god
day comes
i wake with a hard heartache
i go down to your place
we sit and chat about new york and trips to the bayou
my smile, a trick
tricking me and trying not to scare you
and a ship with eight sails could come round the bend
or a heard of bulls charging stoplights red
i'd be blind
you broke my heart, danny boy
not your fault, danny boy
i was had at the doorstep
played, like a two to a four-set
had, like poor job in the bible by god
and you sat in a chair
thinking "boy i'm such a prince!"
well, life's a train that goes from february on
day by day
but it's making a stop on april first
and you will believe in love
and all that it's supposed to be
but just until the fish start to smell
and you're struck down by a hammer
sure, you were swift
when the handsome greek boys dropped by with gifts
you are suave
thanks to ribbons that open sesame
but in the stars and closer to home, in every planet
it ain't hard for me and dear jo jo to see
that you will believe in love
and all that it's supposed to be
but just until the fish start to smell
and you're struck down by a hammer
so let it all go by
looking at the sky
wondering if there's clouds and stuff in hell
and you will believe in love
and all that it's supposed to be
but just until the fish start to smell
and you're struck down by a hammer
you gave it all and almost faded away
i'm going to take this sad and unread issue
in my arms tonight
looking at hospitals victorian
feeling as helpless as the elephant man
wish you were here
to chain you up and without shame
in my arms tonight
so if you should feel a bit out of place
this vision not unlike a shooting star
i have embraced
cause you gave me all your love in one day
you gave it all and almost faded away
i'm going to take this sad and unread issue
in my arms tonight
looking at hospitals victorian
feeling as helpless as the elephant man
wish you were here
to chain you up and without shame
in my arms tonight
i ain't a soft and saccharine wannabe
still i pray to god this song will end happily
so i offer you a place to rest and forget yourself
in my arms tonight
a place to rest and forget yourself
in my arms
tonight
wearing new hats
shooting the shit
deep in the heart of duchess county bounty
and all the evening breakdowns will soon be washed from their hands
the next very day
as they make way
eating the apple to the chapel holy
don't even try
they'll get away with murder
sure as the rain washes away
and brings thunder
oh tell me can you see it?
the gentle tower rising
over the pines, out of a book
zion mistaken for the state of millbrook
nothing so small
nothing so pure as my baby
all of my life
days into nights
all i did dream was my baby
until the day
darkness entwined with silver eyes
was my baby staring at me
and since then
i can't see straight
and since then
my smile's been fake
funny, i know the troubles i've seen
but through one eye only that's clean
if you bring along your needles
then i'll bring my sharpened pencils
and draw one more comic tragedy
so call up the child players
from madame we'll rent the parlor
and dance to death till i can't see
my baby
i never wanted it
i never had your beauty mark
nor did i have your black hair
and hazel eyes
my early childhood was not as simple
as yours set in the country
no i did not have a fear of nuns who dressed in black
but i do have your taste
i had no radio show
nor did i have home-made clothes
home-made curtains of the same material
i never had it
i never wanted it
i never had your beauty mark
but i do have your taste
and i do have your round face and long hands
i think callas sang a lovely norma
you prefer rhoutzan in deep river
i may not be so manly
but still i know you love me
even if i don't have your beauty mark
when shadows held the world in place
but today i felt a chill in my apartment's coolest place
fuggi regal fantasima
the village larks cannot be heard
cause all the crows got panderers
i can't escape these velvet drapes
don't want my rings to fall off my fingers
fuggi regal fantasima
the mirror i find hard to face
cause i fear it's a long way down
got to get away from here
think i know which hemisphere
crazy me don't think there's pain in barcelona
they dance you round a waltz confound
but i fear it's a long way down
this road
even if that straw i pulled
and i got to fight that bull
nothing really does compare to barcelona
besides in spain don juan's to blame
but i fear it's a long way down
and i fear i won't be around
got to get away from here
think i know which hemisphere
make sure i have all my papers
laying out my summer clothes
search for traps in vain like scratching
so my suitcase i can close
fuggi regal fantasima
still so beautiful as the angels
as the angels came down from high
so sweet and so soft
so charmingly daft
so young was the matinee idol
lips of crimson, slightly open
as the flash and all fame put to rest
walk along that wall
no it is not from the academy
walk along that wall
from this moment on
you'll cease to be the undying love of the public eye
and so goes one more away from the maze
away for to sit at the table above babel
far from this world
while standing on the boulevard
walk along that wall
no it is not from the academy
walk along that wall
from this moment on
you'll cease to be
but still
whomever has looked at beauty is marked out already by death
still so beautiful as the angels
as the angels came down from high
brown-eyed tosca, don't believe the creep
i see it in his eyes
and why don't you ladies believe me when i'm screaming
i always believe you
violetta, keep your man locked up
or like cio-cio
you will end up burned by love or sickness
i always believe you
there is a knock at the door
tell me it's not mimi again
or is it Gilda's waiting passion
to be stabbed and killed again
katya kabanova, why did you marry him?
you knew his mother was a bitch
and would keep hold of him
oh pamina got away from mama
before the age of rambo opera
damned ladies of orpheus
your arias cause a stir in my sad and lonely heart
