Little Bribes

The Eiffel Tower built to smaller scale In the freshest oxygen I'd ever inhaled I tapped a bottle against a safety rail Killing time And you were like a walking compliment Tall in stature and exceptionally read In dummy glasses and a cardigan Oh, come on And oh so empty were the faces Of the dealers and the waitresses all around You said that all these things you've learned to ignore The hidden cameras on the casino floor And what gets paid for behind hotel doors Oh, come on And you pretend every slot machine Is a robot amputee waving "hello" And the people stare into their eyes And they feed them little bribes and then they go In the never-ending twilight In a basement where the sun has never spilt You said that you were lonely And then we kissed like lonely people do You said this city has a beating heart That pushes people down the boulevard And they're all hoping for a wish fulfilled In a desert for a dollar bill And those foolish dreams you know they plague me still Oh, come on And oh so empty were the faces Of the dealers and the waitresses all around And oh so empty were the faces Of the dealers and the waitresses all around They're empty