Gardenia

I kinda like the way you dot your "J"s

With giant circles of naïveté

The kind of circles include everything

Don't mean to damn you with the faintest phrase

It's just a symptom of the blithe age

Walter Lippmann, he would be amazed

So you've got some curb appeal

But can you cook a three course meal?

Or are you just a present

Waiting to be opened up and parceled out again?

Hey!

Well you are a gardenia

Pressed in the campaign journal

In the rucksack of an Afrikaner candidate for mild reform

It's like we're at a Ponzi scaminar

There's no escaping without a door prize

They're operating at significant loss

And now the way that you watch your weight

Richard Avedon, Richard Avedon would

Richard Avedon would surely approve

So much for your curb appeal

So much for the three course meals

'Cause I am not a present

Waiting to be opened up and parceled out again

Hey!

Well the torture of the Van Wyck Expressway

At 5pm on Friday

Gives you some idea of how rejection makes me feel

Well you are a gardenia

You are a gardenia