Pushing The Pink Envelope

Last night I dreamt that you moved on without me
Husband, kids, house, the works
All recited on a player piano
I could never seem to find the right notes

Military-grade memories in a cab ride
The Masonic lodge menagerie was
Karma chained
Around Joshua tree
Craving any thrill with smell-o-vision citrus
But the roots were revealed to be my pale veins
A dying star with inexplicit contenders
I felt contorted into Sunday school shapes

Could I get a rainbow sign?
Something to remember you by?
With more intricate animal parts
2x2, doom and gloom

Any minute now, she'll deplane from
Somewhere where I hate myself
So if it's all the same to you
I think I'll just get fucked instead

Front door, new lock, same key
For anyone but me it wouldn't be this easy
Star Baby, is your heart full now?
Nuclear in a modest house

“Pretending to do man things, pussy”

When the applause light breaks
Who cries at your lines?
Standing ovation's gone, but I can be replaced
Embarrassment chained by optimism
White picket fence in the fireplace

What's rotten, but chews to the core?
All the weddings of people I wrote songs for
I'd take back every word just to be invited

C-List on a dose of resentment
Buccaneered by the lowest of content
Fuck like a beast on a scheduled Sex night
Today's Tom Sawyer he needs Adderall

The perforation ends
Call me at midnight
I wanna take it back I never meant it, but
I take years off my life
Trying not to think of our time as wasted

I never meant it, I don't want it
(Inverted, the outside looking in)
(I wanna take it back, forever take it back)

When the applause light breaks
Who cries at your lines?
Standing ovation's gone, but I can be replaced
Embarrassment chained by optimism
White picket fence in the fireplace

The perforation ends
And you call me at midnight
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