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I am alive
I am alive
and that is the best that i can do
you told me you lied
you swore you were mine
I'll take you back a thousand times
Talk of the town
you've been around
if he is the man you want then go
but tonight we'll leave
all our lovers behind
and try to live a quiet life
my love has dressed me like a clown
you are an ass
a snake in the grass
and he seeps from out your pores
and baby it's time
to pay for my crime
nothing i say can make you mine
you either sing it in key
or run into me
i can fake it as good as you
but tonight we'll leave
all our stupid songs
we'll drive and reach the hills by dawn
my love has dressed me like a clown
but tonight we'll leave
all our lovers behind
and try to live a quiet life
margot dress me like a clown
tonight we'll drink
into an early grave
we'll laugh, we will not be safe
someone has dressed us all like clowns
darling it's in
where do i begin?
putting the contact lenses in
you say the lights
scurry like mice
reflect on the streets in your blue eyes
out on the roof
wait to grow up
turn me around and lock me up
baby you are an ass
a snake in the grass
vanity oozes out your pores
Oooh, ooooh
Oooh, ooooh
I am alive
and that is the best that i can do
you told me you lied
you swore you were mine
I'll take you back a thousand times
Talk of the town
you've been around
if he is the man you want then go
but tonight we'll leave
all our lovers behind
and try to live a quiet life
my love has dressed me like a clown
you are an ass
a snake in the grass
and he seeps from out your pores
and baby it's time
to pay for my crime
nothing i say can make you mine
you either sing it in key
or run into me
i can fake it as good as you
but tonight we'll leave
all our stupid songs
we'll drive and reach the hills by dawn
my love has dressed me like a clown
but tonight we'll leave
all our lovers behind
and try to live a quiet life
margot dress me like a clown
tonight we'll drink
into an early grave
we'll laugh, we will not be safe
someone has dressed us all like clowns
darling it's in
where do i begin?
putting the contact lenses in
you say the lights
scurry like mice
reflect on the streets in your blue eyes
out on the roof
wait to grow up
turn me around and lock me up
baby you are an ass
a snake in the grass
vanity oozes out your pores
Oooh, ooooh
Oooh, ooooh
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ASP! not ASS. CHANGE IT.
also, it is "Gomer, you lied" not "you go near your light"
this was an early title for the song.
also it's "my love has dressed me like a clown" and "margot has dressed me like a clown"
and at the end, it's "reflectin the streets in your blue eyes. out on the roof, way to grow up, turn me around then bog me up, baby you are an asp, a snake in the grass, vanity oozes out your pores."
margot refers to margot tenenbaum. the song is about the movie; an article confirms this in harp magazine from i think september. the article is probably online. miki is right, the song refers to margot's infidelity in the film the royal tenenbaums, whether it's to her husband or to her adopted brother richie. she's screwing around with eli cash. the end.
I'd like to point out it's 'asp' and not 'ass'.
sweety its ass there is no such word as an asp :D he even says it clearly at the end maybe u should listen to the song again
@OneilKatetum: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asp_%28reptile%29<br /> <br /> Sit the fuck down. First off, "asp" means "snake," and given the context, makes great sense. However I won't comment until I see the CD's case and look at the lyrics, should they be officially provided.
This song's great, anybody got any ideas on what he means by "dress me like a clown"?
i think this song is about a man who loves a woman who can't stay faithful to him. he loves her, he'll forgive her, he'll take her back every time she strays, but she still can't be with one man and it kills him inside. she's the "talk of the town" (people gossiping), and he even insists that if she wants the other guys, to just leave him and be with them. but at night when he’s with her, he tries to forget all her other lovers and tries to "live a quiet life" with her, as in, imagining she's not cheating on him. when she's "dressing him as a clown" it's her playing him as the fool: he knows, she knows, everyone knows, but he still pretends that she only loves him. he knows inside that "nothing i say could make you mine."
i also think "i can think it as good as you" is "fake it," as in, if you pretend you're only with me, i'll pretend too. i also think it's interesting that he sings "margot" in there, because margot tenenbaum was cheating on her husband blatantly in The Royal Tenenbaums.
i tihnk this is one of the best song off of the dust of retreat. margot and the nuclear so and sos are fucking beyond words.
maybe, 'dress me up like a clown' signifies the fact that each time he takes her back he is humiliated because he knows that the same thing will happen again and again, however, margot, i heard in an interview, is his daughter...
"I swore you were mine. I'd take you back a thousand times."
I love those lines and I think it sums up most of the song. She is everything to him, but she's "been around" the town and he knows it. As much as he dislikes that he still cares for her and because everyone knows she is unfaithful she is "dressing him like a clown".. or playing him for a fool.
P.S. Under--you just corrected wrong lyrics with more wrong lyrics.
Way to go.
haha...
well i love this song.