25.Last Dance Rodeo
Your lungs fill with concrete
His voice is all you can hear
Your lips and a screwdriver
wrapped around some mink-clad smear
And you know that she's a diamond
In this damn juke-box hell
Cause fools go with only fools
Fools in two-bit hotels
But she's cooler than all that
She's a real high-class cat
She's queen of the last dance rodeo
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But under the gaslamp
The air is thick and velveteen
Your bones fill with hunger
Your heart fills with longing
You're no longer human
You're an insatiable hole
You want to bury your face forever
In the naval of her soul 'cause you know
All you need is a heart to call home
All you need is a heart to call home
That's all
Lightbulbs and nylons,
and plastic chandeliers
Objects are only objects
They can't feel when you're near
And tangerine lips
And lilly-white breasts
These things are eternal
Inside them, humanity rests
Her skin is like a seashell
You listen to her soul
Like an old-time radio show
Chorus
But don't wander too far
My one constant star
Darkness exists,
Except where you are
My feet are filled with wandering
They follow your own
Cause everywhere you are feels like home
So search, all you miners
You hunters of dreams
Look in the alleyways
For what you know
Is not what it seems
And feign, all you maidens
But don't resist too long
Least you look behind you
And see your own shadow is gone
Don't you know it's a last rodeo
You better find yourself a cowboy
Or someone to keep you warm when it's cold
Chorus
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