I was a lover, before this warHeld up in a luxury suite, behind a barricaded doorNow that I've cleaned up, gone legitI can see clearly: round holeRound whole, square peg don't fitI'm locked in my bedroom, so send back the clownsMy clone wears a brown shirt, and I seduce him when there's no one aroundMano why mano, on a bed of nailsBring it on like a storm, till I knock the wind out of his sailsAnd we don't make eye contact, when we have run-in's in townJust a barely polite nod, and nervous stares towards the groundI once joined a priest class, plastic, inertIn a slowdance with commerceLike a lens up a skirtAnd we liked to partyAnd we kept it liveAnd we had a three volume tome of contemporary slangTo keep a handle on all this jiveEnnui unbridled, let's talk to kill the timeHow many styles did you cycle through before you were mine?And it's been a while since we went wild and that's all fineBut we're sleepwalking through this trialAnd it's really a crime it's really a crime it's really a crimeIt's really criminalWe're just busy tempting, like fate's on the nodRunning on empty, bourbon and godIt's been a while since we knew the wayAnd it's been even longer since our plastic priest classHad a goddamned thing to sayI was a lover before this war
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