Among Other Foolish Things

Lily, I don't know how to start this letter

I'm writin' you from the beach where I'm livin'

I got a disco outside my window

I love all these kids, but the good times are killin' me

I got a picture of you on the dashboard

So I can feel like you're watchin' right over me

I hope someday you're gonna move to the city

'Cause the lights in this town, they don't brighten up anything

And they say such foolish things

Like "love, love, love, love is all you need"

But everything inside is saying "danger, baby

Love's gonna leave"

So I beg your sympathy

Have mercy on me

'Cause I been hurt, I been stung

By the good name of love

'Til I threw my own heart in the sea

Among other foolish things

And I don't mind the nights, and the low light

We spin 'round, like records in the apartment

You still remind me of Marianne Faithful

Lookin' like a picture taken out of the 60s

And we say such foolish things

Like "love, love, love, love is all we need"

But everything inside is saying "danger, baby

Love's gonna leave"

So I beg your sympathy

Be patient with me

'Cause I been hurt, I been stung

By the good name of love

'Til I threw my own heart in the sea

Among other foolish things

And we believe such foolish things

Like "love, love, love, love is all you need"

And livin' would be easy if we never ever had to bleed

And I've taken a dive on a smokey set of lies

I've been so deceived, and I've been the one lyin'

And there was this one time when I painted a masterpiece

Among other foolish things