The Tin Man

The Tin Man's sitting in the waiting room With his brand new plastic heart He don't know where to start Can't really tell it's a false alarm Cuz he can't feel much of anything No he's hollow to the core And what he pours inside don't satisfy Just spills out on the floor The doc comes in 20 minutes late And he pours himself a drink He says, "boy I aint no shrink But you better watch what it is you think!" "Cuz that thing that ticks inside of you Has got a mind of its own It'll drive you mad for what you never had Make you burn like black coal." And he came up strong with too much love For her cold hands to hold You better hold him down until the end of the show And when they danced he broke her back With the weight of the world You better hold him down till the end of the show In the park by the tenement With his head laid in his hands The Tin Man has got a plan He's met a girl and she makes him sad But all he knows he knows from films And he follows the actor's lead He's jammed a rose between his teeth And scrubbed his armor clean Now he's running up and down the avenue His joints are creaking in the rain He made a date but she never came Of course, he has gone insane And he shouts her name into the night He startles the passers by And on the road not far ahead She hears and she takes a fright The police report had a note in it And it made the captain blush He thought it all was a little much He didn't they called that love It seems the Tin Man screamed some profanities From the top of a city bus But when he caught a sight of his girl inside He slipped and died for all of us