Elegance

Elegance, fashion, and taste You and me and the world in one cold embrace We pull out of it slowly when we feel out of place We stuff crumpled receipts in cracks in the walls So somebody might know we'd been here at all As if poets and kings would sing of our rise and fall It was our parents' generation, we should've remembered to call Everybody's got a list to check off but Nobody knows what they wrote it for Well, you don't have to be like that with me baby Lists never did me any good before And you said "don't look at me like that" But I only want you to be happy Don't you go giving up the ghost on me I only want you to be happy And back at home Your mind can soar And I won't be there anymore Elegance, a dry joke on the phone Well, there's more to the story but I'll mask my tone Cause we've got better hills to die on and troops of our own When I think of the ideas they implanted in you All the marks to fall short of, rusty twists of the truth Sing me a song of that ruin like it had stolen your youth In the haze of that memory I thought I'd lost it all too But everybody's got regrets to shrug off Everybody's got a friend they never call I won't ever be a fly on you, babe I'll crouch, cock it back, spear it to the wall I won't look at you like that I only want you to be happy Don't you go giving up the ghost on me I only want you to be happy And back at home Your mind can soar And I won't be there anymore I only want you to be happy I only want you to be happy I only wanted you I want you to be happy I only want you to be happy I only wanted you