Pearl in the Palm

There is not much worse could be done to me Than lonely love, lonely love This could be the verse ignominy festers inside of Johan Strauss in the closet composes a Waltz As the sayin' goes I feel like a tethered dove with a broken nose, you know As the sayin' goes I feel like I'm close enough to hear the very grass grow You know, you know, you know, you know, hey I lost I lost I lost And no one won Champagne for everybody here And real pain (real pain) for everybody else Sally said, "Everything is happenin' here, right now" "It's all misery and sufferin' in all else" "It's true", she said, "I read it" ah As the sayin' goes I feel like a tethered dove with a broken nose, you know As the sayin' goes I feel like I'm close enough to hear the very grass grow You know, you know, you know, you know, hey Hey Hey, hey Hey Supermarket doors kiss the air all day, all night A ruffle in the curtains up above, I watch on Like a pearl in the palm my dear, a pearl in the palm It was all that I could do to hold on, hold on I lost I lost I lost And no one won