Portrait of a Blank Slate

He told me that much and now he's dead Taught me to kill my indulgences With a sharp blow to the temple Pick up the phone call and do everything he says I could take a plastic camera We could make such a pretty picture Oh, so happy, oh, oh, so happy I'm pretty cool once you get to know me I feel at some point I broke my mind I'm always searching the silent type How do you all make it look so easy? You open your hearts up so quickly it scares me She's an artist, paints across my chest Goes to parties, act like hotel guests Wake up Monday, now it's over Don't you know no one gets what they came here for? I could paint her, wrapped around her We could make such a pretty picture Oh, so happy, oh, oh, so happy I'm pretty cool once you get to know me But I'm just the same I've got a boring name Across the world from what you want and what you came here for So I'll wait here for you I said, "Please just let me stay" Oh, just let me stay, oh I guess you know now what to expect He lives your own life in retrospect You know it bores me, his insecurities Breaks you down just to act as the architect I could wait here, by the west pier Watched the flotsam float, slowly disappear Oh, so happy, oh, oh, so happy If only you knew just how much better things could be Another week of action Another hypoglycaemic reaction But I'm just the same I've got a boring name Across the world from what you want and what you came here for So I'll wait here for you I said, "Please just let me stay" Oh, just let me stay Oh, just let me I'm sorry, it's all so predictable I'm sorry, it's all so predictable, I know