Cigarettes and Violets

You smell like cigarettes and violets

You invite me in but won't tell me your name

Your hands held all the aces

Kings and queens but still you lost the game

Messed up like a sunset

Too close to be a star

Messed up like an actor

That got stuck doing porn

Messed up skipping dinner

And living on popcorn

Messed up like a song

Right turn in the wrong lane

A quick fix but all your love's in vain

Best schools, worst grades

Sold out but maybe forgot to get paid

Messed up like the father

Who couldn't see the sun

Messed up like an outlaw

Who blamed it on the gun

Messed up like an outlaw

Who did what one might

Messed up here tonight

Well this captain sharp is on the run

I'm riding in a restaurant

A stranger taking orders

Ask me what I want

Tell the secrets of the room

You tied the knot

I bought the rope it seemed

Messed up like a martyr

Straight or on the rocks

Messed up like my mother

Crazy like a fox

Messed up like the sunlight

Too early in my eyes

Messed up like a prizefight

At least you could have tried

Messed up like the system

You used to call a sin

Messed up like an earthquake

You couldn't keep it in

Messed up like a birthday

I can't recall the date

You still love to hate