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Gardenia Lyrics
I kinda like the way you dot your "J"s
With giant circles of naïveté
The kind of circles include everything
Don't mean to damn you with the faintest phrase
It's just a symptom of the blave age
I want to live in
He would be amazed.
So you've got some curb appeal
But can you cook a three course meal?
Or are you just a present waiting to be opened up and parceled out again? Hey!
You are a gardenia,
pressed in the campaign journal in the rucksack of an Afrikaaner candidate for mild reform.
It's like we're at a Ponzi Scaminar
There's no escaping
Without a door prize
They're operating at significant loss.
And now the way that you watch your weight,
Richard Avedon, Richard Avedon would,
Richard Avedon would surely approve.
So much for your curb appeal.
So much for your three course meals.
'Cause I am not a present waiting to be opened up and parceled out again. Hey!
Well the torture of the Van Wyk Expressway at 5pm on friday gives you some idea of how rejection makes me feel.
Well you are a Gardenia,
You are a gardenia.
With giant circles of naïveté
The kind of circles include everything
Don't mean to damn you with the faintest phrase
It's just a symptom of the blave age
I want to live in
He would be amazed.
But can you cook a three course meal?
Or are you just a present waiting to be opened up and parceled out again? Hey!
pressed in the campaign journal in the rucksack of an Afrikaaner candidate for mild reform.
There's no escaping
Without a door prize
They're operating at significant loss.
And now the way that you watch your weight,
Richard Avedon, Richard Avedon would,
Richard Avedon would surely approve.
So much for your three course meals.
'Cause I am not a present waiting to be opened up and parceled out again. Hey!
Well you are a Gardenia,
You are a gardenia.
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Submitted by
calvin_f On Apr 12, 2008
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She's beautiful but it ain't worth it.
i think the line, "i want to live in" is actually "walter lippmann."
also, "it's like we're at a ponzi scheme now" i think is, "it's like we're at a ponzi scaminar." the play on words at the end makes the next line make sense.
i think the song is by a guy who thinks too much when it comes to girls. he wants to ask a girl out and is going wild on the scenarios trying to convince himself it's not worth it. what it really he is that he's just afraid of rejection and just hangs back because of it.
I think it's "It's just a symptom of the blithe age," meaning cheerful or jovial.
The first verse is:
I kinda like the way you dot your J's With giant circles of naivety The kind of circles include everything Don't mean to damn you with the faintest praise It's just a symptom of the blithe age Walter Lippmann He would be amazed
Definitely agree that its 'Ponzi Scaminar' as well
does he mean Walt Whitman?