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I exit through the spotlight glare
I stepped out into thin air
Into a perfume so rarefied
Here
comes
the
bride
Not quite aside, they snide, Shes number four"
"Theres
number
three
just
by
the
door
Those in the know, don't even flatter her,
They go one better
She
was
selling
speedboats
in
a
trade show
in
Atlanta
Look at her now
She's starting to yawn
She looks like she was born to it
But it was so much easier
When I was cruel
She reaches out her arms to me
Imploring: Another
melody?
So she can dance her husband out on the floor
The captains of industry just lie there where they fall
In eau-de-nil and place carnation creation
A satin sash and velvet elevation
She straightens the tipsy head-dress of her spouse
While hers recalls a honey house
There'll be no sorrows left to drown
Early in the morning in your evening gown
But it was so much easier
When I was cruel
The entrance hall was arranged with hostesses and ushers
Who turned out to be the younger wives nursing schoolgirl crushes
Parting the waves of those few feint friends
Fingers once offered are now too heavy to extend
The ghostly first wife glides up on stage whispering to raucous talkers
Spilling family secrets ou to flunkeys and castrato walkers
See that girl,
Watch that scene
Digging the Dancing
Queen
Two newspaper editors like playground sneaks
Running a book on which of them is going to last the week
One of them calls to me
And he says, I
know
you
"You were a spoilt child then with a record to plug"
"And I was a shaven headed seaside thug"
"Things havent
really
changed
that
much
One
of
us
is
still
getting
paid
to
much
There are some things I can't report
The memory of his last retort
But it was so much easier
When I was cruel
Look at me now
She's starting to yawn
She looks like she was born to it
Ah, but it was so much easier
When I was cruel
- Album:
- Unfaithful Music & Soundtrack Album
- In Motion Pictures
- Miscellaneous
- Secret, Profane And Sugarcane
- Momofuku
- Rock & Roll Music
- North
- The Juliet Letters
- National Ransom
- BRIDGE SCHOOL CONCERTS, VOL. ONE
- Nostalgie The Big 5 Rock
- The Wide World Over: A 40 Year Celebration
- My Aim Is True (Deluxe Edition)
- The McCartney-McManus Collaborations
- Out of Our Idiot
- iTunes Originals
- Live At the El Mocambo
- Singles, Volume 1
- King of America
- 2002-05-15: Easy Street Records, Seattle, WA, USA