'd like to meet a boy who looks like Elvis And she walks along the edge of where the ocean meets the land Just like she's walking on a wire in the circus
Sha la, la, la, la, la, la Oh Uh, huh I was down at the New Amsterdam Starin' at this yellow-haired girl Mr. Jones strikes up a conversation With a black
feeling that it's all a lot of oysters, but no pearls All at once you look across a crowded room To see the way that light attaches to a girl And it
I took the cannon ball down to the ocean Across the desert from the sea to shining sea I rode a ladder that climbed across the nation 50 million feet
me when you laugh at me and she locks all the doors But I'm not sleeping anymore, anymore No, I'm not sleeping anymore, oh, anymore 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 a
Well I guess you left me with some feathers in my hand Did it make it any easier to leave me where I stand? I guess there might not be too many who would
need a phone call I need a raincoat I really need a raincoat I really really need a raincoat I really really really need a raincoat I really need a raincoat
Take the way home leads back to Sullivan Street Cross the water home through the town Past the shadows that fall down wherever we meet Pretty soon now
of faith and sex and God In the belly of a black-winged bird Don't try to feed me 'Cause I've been here before And I deserve a little more And I belong
Children in bloom, cookin' in the sun Waitin' for a room of our own Leave my sister alone She doesn't deserve this She is a flower and I am a flower And
I gotta rush away, she said I've been to Boston before Anyway, this change I've been feeling Doesn't make the rain fall No big differences these days
overly concerned My friend implores me, "For one time only Make an exception" I am not worried Wrap her up in a package of lies Send her off to a coconut
She is trapped inside a month of gray And they take a little every day She is a victim of her own responses Shackled to a heart that wants to settle and
Get away from me Get away from me This isn't gonna be easy But I don't need you Believe me Yeah you got a piece of me But it's just a little piece of
We can talk a while, baby We can take it nice and slow All your life is such a shame, shame, shame All your love is just a dream, dream, dream Well
here 'Cause I don't wanna be alone I wanna be the knife that cuts into my hand And I wanna be scattered from here in this catapult What a big baby,
she'd like to meet a boy who looks like Elvis She walks along the edge of where the ocean meets the land Just like she's walking on a wire in the circus