Plastic Skeletons

Palm trees tickling the skyline, cover me in dead vines

I spoke with the plastic skeletons and they're all drinking

Dandelion wine and admiring the shoreline

Telling me they love it when I tap my tambourine

And wear my skinny jeans or pray like Augustine

Oh, and I good in spite of or because I am 19?

Just tell me what you mean, friend, life is no long weekend

Hope you have it in you to undress again

I saw Chicago, it was rotting

Jazz ballads played low, no one saw me

Crawl like a gecko toward sunlight

So may fat crows with appetite

Do you wanna dance like a fire ant

In the eye of a long-dead bison?

Do you wanna love like a poet can

The husk of their fruit just ripened?

Do you wanna meet on the cold concrete

Outside our favorite diner?

Do you wanna wrap me up in suede

Smudge off my black eyeliner?

Notebooks filled with dirty poems, all slanted like hipbones

Of women who stand and twist the cords of telephones

I kiss your microphone and blame it on hormones

Oh, I've become addicted to the smell of your cologne

But why can't we just keep it our little summer secret?

You should that everything I say won't be repeated

Drink your margarita, flirt with drunk Maria

Chasing skirts like some golden retriever

I saw Chicago, it was rotting

Jazz ballads played low, no one saw me

Crawl like a gecko toward sunlight

So may fat crows with appetite

Do you wanna dance like a fire ant

In the eye of a long-dead bison?

Do you wanna love like a poet can

The husk of their fruit just ripened?

Do you wanna meet on the cold concrete

Outside our favorite diner?

Do you wanna wrap me up in suede

Smudge off my black eyeliner?

Do you wanna dance like a fire ant

In the eye of a long-dead bison?

Do you wanna love like a poet can

The husk of their fruit just ripened?

Do you wanna meet on the cold concrete

Outside our favorite diner?

Do you wanna wrap me up in suede

Smudge off my black eyeliner?