I wish I knew a man Someone to steal me From this sadness I wish I knew a girl Who'd run her fingers Through my hair and kiss me Wish, I didn't have
every love song on every TV and Hollywood told me it should be beautiful and sweet like watching soul train with Marvin Gaye on but baby it hurts to love
Now I'm walking on my own two feet The sun is shinning, my shadow's stretched across the street And I meet the eyes of a stranger I can't quite place
so bright when I spit my lips glow, [Chorus] The dusty foot philosopher Ripping up kilometers Winking at you officers da dum da dum da dum The dusty foot philosopher
without sin I can't make religion as without sin there's no whoredom and when in my heart god becomes a harlot I shall sin, sin, sin again ("...every
draw Between your dream world and reality Do you live my life or share the breath I breathe? Lies feed your judgment of others behold How the blind lead each other? The philosopher
I'd start with the boys that hang at the pier Like bats in the night get tangled in your hair I'd take away the weekend shore leave lovers That flood
How many times do I have to say that I love you How many times do I have to say the words I will hold you, I will love you I will think the whole world
Sleep, my love Dream warm and hard and true In pieces, in colors In a cloud of awkward blue Hold, my hand I feel the things you tell no man Move through
Ok now let me get it Why do you talk that way? Why you so stuck on money? Now it's the top of the world But it's beneath the girl I love You used to
I would never give back the love, you gave me I would never undo the past, that made me Even when the memories hurt it would only make me feel worse If
I saw a foreign movie at my girlfriend's place last night Through smooth pictures in a dream of black and white Saw this girl with the clean soul of a
So I came all the way from Trenton, spent a full night at the station In a suitcase made of Calico Brown Now I'm almost out of money and I'm sleepy and
When you see a big injustice Will you disobey the laws? Will you fight for any army And turn your fingernails to claws? And try a little vengeance Try
On the main streets and the avenues In the condos white as knuckles bruised With the carmine of the busy liquor bars There's a dark and mystic beauty
In my dream You were stronger than ever Built ten feet tall And tougher than the Stacey's leather And in this dream you were stronger than real life
You call me sugarbaby but do you swear Do you swear, do you swear You call me sugarbaby but do you swear Do you swear on that And would you want to take
She's got spider web hair And a skin like see through jelly With a, a porcelain stare That moves the walls of my belly But she used to have a Cherub'
