Figures of Men

歌詞

When the cat's not home, The rat dances on the table. In a sequins dress with a couple of friends from East Berlin. And when he gets back she's going to tell me how she turned her life into a plate of pickles. I guess that's what happens, I guess that's what happens when you try to civilise Try to civilise a rat. And New York City is like, I couldn't tell you I'm from the mountains. Virginia you bitch you adopted sons and thread I thought he was your genius child, with the whole world in his lips. Oh he used to be so afraid of the dark and what might happen if he followed his heart, I hope he follows it back to me, he was my best friend. I tried to civilise, I tried to civilise his rat. In the back bed of a pickup truck I read the Bhagavad Ghita I was in an awful hurry to get back East. Where I met a girl at a bus stop and in the motel after the doors were locked I said lay with me for seven nights and civilise me. But I was warm before she gave me clothes and in the light of my favourite TV shows I looked pretty I looked pretty good. She said this is not the Sixties revival of folk, though you kids all look like it and I'm pretty sure you're addicted to coke. I said I thought it would help my art. You see I got tired of getting talked over in bars and singing my songs on someone else's guitar, I only ever wanted people to think I was smart. I wanted to civilise to civilise the rats. So I've been killing one fly with a couple of swats, I've been killing my time talking to God he's my insurance plan, safer than State Farm. And my girl's got one hundred crayons In a plastic bag from H&M and She's drawing figures of men. And I'm so happy la-di-da-di-da I'm no longer a dog in the oxen's trough no, She gives me good things to eat, She's my new best friend. So yodelay yodelay yodelay yodelayheehoo I fell in love with the Devil and it hurts yeah I always knew, she was a package deal. And I won't try to civilise, I won't try to civilise her. This is the life I chose. This is the life I chose. This is the life I chose. This is the li...