Ella

You kiss my neck and it feels sweet
A thousand circles draw complete
And deep inside this painful world
A love endures
And baby don’t you touch ground

Our paths were never very clear
Our motives might have been impure
But after all this time a love endures
Remember surely
I’ll be there when you’re down
Yeah and baby don’t you touch ground

Cable cars, Manhattan bars, where Sundays last forever
The things that made us sad seem far away

Yeah and baby don’t you touch ground

Flatboard schemes, new human beings, remember once I said never
The things that made us sad seem far away

And so we go following dreams
For good or worse or in between
And who’d have thought that with one little girl
We could change our world
And baby don’t you touch ground
Yeah, Ella b. don’t you touch ground
‘Cause daddy’s here when you’re down
And I’ll be here when you’re down

His Eye, It’s Wandering

I saw you walking with him around the arcade
There’s something you ought to know before naming the day
Parisian women are fine, he knows this well
His eye, it’s wandering

I saw him buying champaign for your anniversary
He was talking to a woman in line, he paid for her things
Now why’s he trying to score in a game he can’t play?
His eye, it’s wandering

Tend your goals
Maintain composure
Lead the life that you like
And don’t be blind, his eye it’s wandering

His eyes would roll if you told him you’re up on his schemes
He’d probably blame your girlfriends for just wanting part of his scene
Parisian women all talk, he knows this well
His eye, it’s wandering

I am wandering, I am wandering, I am wandering, I am wandering

Cracked World View

We stood to watch it fall
The wall that cut us all
Disintegrates into everyone

The things you felt were real
Impossible to conceal
Fear melts away into joy

So why are we still fighting the cancer
We all know the question follows the answer

And every day I grow a little bit farther from you
And love grows smaller in the din and the hollar of your
Cracked world view
I met a lot of people and people are divided it’s true
But every day’s a reason for a shorter season of your
Cracked world view

The sky turned orange blaze
Gone arosol insane
Like brotherhood swallowed everyone

That’s when we knew we’d been blind
It’d crawled inside our mind and said
“No one loves nobody”

Well we know the love and we know the anger now
Look in the mirror there stands a stranger

And every day I grow a little bit farther from you
And love grows smaller in the din and the hollar of your
Cracked world view
I met a lot of people and people are divided it’s true
But every day’s a reason for a shorter season of your
Cracked world view

Automaton

I was born in the sink of a basement apartment
To a dad who had no mom and a mom who never asked where dads went
Now you keep me hanging on out of deference for my keen mind
And your friends don’t object ‘cause they think my raincoats fur-lined

Automaton, any boy you like
I am a man, close but not quite
I feel so real but my eyes aren’t right
Automaton man
Automaton I am
Mixin a cocktail I am your thin man

I’ve played at all the clubs of discretion and refinement
No matter how I try I ride in second class compartments
Well now everywhere with you I hear the sound of tape in rewind
You don’t want to be alone and God forbid you might die trying

Automaton, any one you like
I charge all day and run at night
It feels all wrongs but I looks all right
Automaton man
Automaton I am
Mixin a cocktail call me the thin man

I’m going to be who I want to be
You’re going to do what you got to do
Well I’m going to say what I want to say
And you’re going to go where you want to go anyway

I done wrestled alligator and tussled with the great white whale
I stood and held the door while the lovely lady did my toe nails
Well it occurs to me that you’re heading into lean times
You don’t want to be alone and I’d hate to see you die trying

Automaton, any who you like
I’m razor thin with an appetite
My clothes all fit bit it’s a trick of light, trick of light, trick of light

Automaton, any boy you like
I am a man, close but not quite
I feel so real but my eyes aren’t right
Automaton man
Automaton I am
Fixing you cocktails I am your thin man

Dog’s Day

It’s been a dog’s day
Dog’s day
The way she tossed her coat across the davenport
Tapped me on the head to quiet my concern

It’s been a hound’s life
A moon-eyed hound’s life
I nudge and nudge the hand that didn’t want to play
Jumped up on the lap, the lap that said ‘no go away’

I long just to hold her
With words I’d have told her
All the things lovers should say
With lips I’d have kissed her
My lover my master
But she’ll never know this dog’s day

He’s in his wolf clothes
His furry wolf clothes
I’ve such contempt for all his chocolates and Champagne
That’s all he ever brought when he’d drop by to entertain

I long just to hold her
With words I’d have told her
All the gentle things lovers say
With lips I’d have kissed her
My lover my master
But she’ll never know this dog’s day

For every night he makes her weep
It’s one more night my love withers and dies
Dies on the leash

It’s such a cold night
Under the porch light
I’ll steam the window pane in hopes he’ll keep his paws away
I’m sure the cork will pop as her defense evaporates

I long just to hold her
With words I’d console her
With everything sweet lovers could say
With lips I’d have kissed her
And finally convinced
But she’ll never know this dog’s day

Nope, God didn’t make me that way
She’ll never know dog’s day