Your lungs fill up with concrete
Her voice is all you can hear
Red lips and a screwdriver
Wrapped around some ink-clad queer
And you know that she's no diamond
And it's damned you for sure (OR In this damn juke box hell)
'Cause only fools gold 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.
But under the gas lamp
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 wanna bury your face forever
In the navel 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.
Light bulbs, and nylons
And plastic chandeliers
Objects are only objects,
They can't feel when you're near.
But tangerine lips
And lily-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.
But under the gas lamp
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 wanna bury your face forever
In the navel of her soul
'Cause you know ...
All you need is a heart to call home
That's all.
But don't wander too far
On 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 fain, all you maidens,
but don't resist too long
Lest you look behind you
And see your own shadow's gone
Don't you know it's the last rodeo
You gotta find yourself a cowboy
Someone to keep you
Warm when it's cold.
'Cause under the gas lamp
The air is thick and velveteen
Your bones filled with hunger
Your heart filled with longing
You're no longer human
You're an insatiable hole.
You wanna bury your face forever
In the navel of her soul
'Cause you know ...
All you need is a heart to call home
All you need is a heart
All you need is a heart to call home
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