truce
you
can have washington i'll take new jersey
you can have london but i want new york city
i
should get providence i've got a job now
los angeles - obvious - that's where you belong
now
you
can have africa asia australia
as long as you keep your hands off cafe pamplona
we
can split germany right down the middle
you'd hate it there anyway
take berlin and well call it even
you
can take all of the carry-on baggage
i'll trade the saskia jokes for the alphabet
language
and
if we find out that we have any children
we'll trade them off summers and alternating
weekends
you
call it over and i call you psycho
significant other?
just say we were lovers and we'll call it even
we'll call it even
i
am the ground zero ex-friend you ordered
disgused as a hero to get past your borders
i know when i'm wanted i'll leave when you ask
me to
mind my own business and speak when i'm spoken
to
i
am the tower around which you orbited
i am not proud i am just taking orders
i fall to the groud within moments of impact
i hit back if hit
and attack if attacked
you
get route 2 between concord and lexington
i want mass ave from the sqaure to my apartment
and
if we should meet through some misunderstanding
ill be very sweet very patient and forgiving
(now get off my side of the state)
and
if we should meet one another in passing
despite these techniques there is sometimes
no avoiding
(there must be some kind of mistake)
we'll
raise high our white flags and say hi and shake
hands
declaring the land we're on unamerican
we'll call it even
i
am the tower around which you orbited
i am not proud i am just taking orders
i fall to the groud within moments of impact
i hit back if hit
and attack if attacked
i
am an accident waiting to happen
i'm laughing like mad while you strangle the
captain
my place may be taken, but make no mistake
from a little black black box i can say without
shame
that you've lost
do you know what you've lost?
so
take whatever you'd like
i'll strike like the States on fire
you won't sleep very tight
no hiding
no safe covers
make your bed and now lie
just like you always do
you can fake it for the papers but i'm on to
you....
copyright 2002 amanda palmer
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