some things never seem to go right when they’re done for the very first time but if you work hard and try to get better to the very top you can climb from magazines you’ll learn all the ways certain things ought to be done but when the moment finally arrives a fear is there you can’t outrun : all the years you’ve waited so patient for the one to make your heart go numb and take you to the top of the mountain here it comes here it comes here it comes and this is what it’s like and this is how it feels if this is what it’s like, is this how it should feel oh darling let me know how you want it go if this is what it’s like and this is how it feels people always want to talk about what they heard about what went wrong how could they know, who would have told a secret that only two were supposed to hold pressure inside builds to exploding it could burst out with just one touch as revenge for a promise now broken that you wanted kept so much and this is what it’s like and this is how it feels if this is what it’s like, is this how it should feel oh darling let me know how you want it go if this is what it’s like and this is how it feels I’m listening and I hear an engine outside passing by it moves so slowly and never stops at red lights many times I’ve broke down and cried when I realized how they all lied and that love will never be true and each time won’t feel brand new and maybe some things sometimes go right even on the very first try but if they do they’ll never get better time after time and night after night and this is what it’s like and this is how it feels if this is what it’s like, is this how it should feel oh darling let me know how you want it go if this is what it’s like and this is how it feels don’t hurt me one more time...

you wake up in the morning, ready to start working you slip on your worn-out shoes and wait all day long to see her, you dream of being with her but at night, you’re on your lonely way into your apartment where you’ll turn on the TV pretty soon it’s only her you’re watching on the screen and your feet start tapping your toes start laughing your stuck on the Abercrombie Girl and all the day long you’ll give in and play along because you’re stuck on the Abercrombie Girl it started off so gently, you swore that you wouldn’t be in deep always wishing she was there you thought that she was cute so you asked her out one night and had fun til she asked you in then you went upstairs and took a look around and something deep inside said “we got to get out now!” but your feet start tapping your toes start laughing your stuck on the Abercrombie Girl and all the day long you’ll give in and play along because you’re stuck on the Abercrombie Girl wipe those thoughts out of your mind child if you know what’s good for you and now it’s time to step right up now and take whatever the teller gives to you. cause your feet start tapping your toes start laughing your stuck on the Abercrombie Girl and all the day long you’ll give in and play along because you’re stuck on the Abercrombie Girl.. and any gift you’ll ever buy her well she’ll take it right on back and exchange it for a brand name and a color completely different cause your feet start tapping your toes start laughing your stuck on the Abercrombie Girl and all the day long you’ll give in and play along because you’re stuck on the Abercrombie Gir

well let me tell you about Mister Christopher Moon he goes out at night armed with a bowl and spoon seeing what soup can be found served up all around the town the one and only Mister Christopher Moon well Mister Moon rides himself around he lifts his wheels right on off the ground and there might be a woman there whether or not, he don’t care the one and only Mister Christopher Moon he'd say “C’mon and be my bomp-ba-bom c’mon and be my shoo-bop-shoo-bop c’mon and be my rima-lima-ding-dong come on and be me blue blue blue blue moon well Mister Moon come into town with a girl he left with one more after leaving her came back had the first once more then he just went back and forth the one and only Mister Christopher Moon well Mister Moon loves the little girls the little girls in and out of his world all the little girls the hang around do the frog and hang upside down all for the love of Mister Christopher Moon, he’d say “C’mon and be my bomp-ba-bom c’mon and be my shoo-bop-shoo-bop c’mon and be my rima-lima-ding-dong come on and be me blue blue blue blue moon blue blue moon, blue blue moon...” well Mister Moon went south to take a chance he went down there for a real-life romance and he fell down and high she stayed, left him on the Texas floor to lay the only and only Mister Christopher Moon I’d go out searching for Christopher Moon in every two-bit rundowntown saloon Diana would say,”I don’t know.. how that boy he comes or goes, tell me what’ll we do with Mister Christopher Moon?” he’d say.. “C’mon and be my bomp-ba-bom c’mon and be my shoo-bop-shoo-bop c’mon and be my rima-lima-ding-dong come on and be me blue blue blue blue moon” well Mister Moon tried to settle down keep on his finger a lucky ring he found swearing this time it’ll last, them days of heartbreak in the past the one and only Mister Christopher Moon well on my left arm I got me a tattoo bop-shoo-wop, bop-bop shoo-wop a tattoo of a cheese filled cartoon moon bop-shoo-bop, bop-bop-shoo-wop people say “What’s that ‘bout?” I just say “Hey c’mon now... let me tell ya ‘bout Mister Christopher Moon”

My legs were turning yellow, the sahde of Easter hay cracked on a barn floor, unable to move and I was trying to find my way by digging through the clay to find the kind that created me and you I said ‘baby put down that guitar, I’ll keep you warm don’t fall apart I’ll turn this cold beach into a high noon lawn and I’ll put on my blue dress, we’ll hit the road as travelers blessed venture to Bellingham and beyond’ because everything you say when you look at me that way is like a heavy rock thrown into a small pond tonight I want to see where all the spotlights in the sky are coming from feel your breath to make my body hum and shouldn’t we be seeing leaves by now, seeing the leaves change back to brown is this a trick to have a summer before fall? cause summer goes by so fast, you’ll think to yourself as leaves go past ‘haven’t I been through this before, haven’t I been through this before’ (coming down hard) on artificial chocolate (coming down hard) where to land you’ll wonder where coming down hard in a neverending summer baby roll of the bones is racing through the air and what have I been doing all this time but waiting to follow through pack it up and go back to New York? pouring all my energy into someone with I should not be finding a reason to put back in the cork and you turn me around from that direction that I’ve found so I can’t see ir or where trust should be stored and you’re always keeping score and making love a chore wearing a purple heart for a forgotten war” (coming down hard) on artificial chocolate (coming down hard) where to land you’ll wonder where coming down hard in a neverending summer baby roll of the bones is racing through the air they’ll say "Diana you’re so thin when I come back home again you don’t take care of yourself, let your family instead" so I eat and gain the weight cause you know I always hate to disappoint so I give in to the dread” and I could feel the magic gone, I knew something had gone wrong from the moment when it first appeared you know the first time that we kissed, you said you were scared but I missed what I saw as confidence you felt as fear and I know that something broke inside when you were a kid and still called Josh some bullies pushed you and some courage then got lost and now you promise all the pearls you found with me to other girls and me leaving now has to make up the cost cause I can’t be around to repair everything fucked up in there you have to be alone to figure out what’s wrong even though you worship me, it’s safe baby to need a lover to cover what you haven’t yet let bleed and shouldn’t we be seeing leaves by now, seeing the leaves change back to brown is this a trick to have a summer before fall cause summer goes by so fast you think to yourself as leaves go past haven’t I been though this before, haven’t I been through this before (coming down hard) on artificial chocolate (coming down hard) it’s OK not to be scared coming down hard in a neverending summer baby roll of the bones is racing through the air

temper is a package, pulling at it’s bow darling, disasters help you grow panthers build their plots to bury daughters leave their dads to marry hide with me in the weeds I’m proving death again temper is the warp speed of red flashes all the bells ringing God forbid did I catch you in the flashes? did I catch you in the flashes? hide with me in the weeds I’m prooving death again you are my fire, my one desire believe me when I say that I want it that way but we are two world far apart and I can’t reach down into your heart when you say that I want it that way tell me why ain’t nothing but a heartache tell me why ain’t nothing but a mistake tell me why I never want to hear you say that I want it that way am I your fire, your one desire and I know that it’s too late but I want it that way tell me why ain’t nothing but a heartache tell me why ain’t nothing but a mistake tell me why I never want to hear you say that I want it that way now I can see that we’ve fallen apart from the way that it used to be no matter the distance I want you to know that deep down inside of me I’m proving death, proving death, proving death...

you thought that I was something special one little look gave it away I always watched in amazement the one that I wanted being replaced and I know that I acted like a child couldn’t peel shell off the egg the trouble came in remembering a moment while another was taking place then I’d bring back every word you said consider gospel what should have been dead but only in the shelter of my pink booth could I confess at all in my pink booth and fill every corner of my pink booth to make the curtain fall in my pink booth I didn’t take all I wanted but I didn’t stop wanting all I could take only when I was abandoned I decided to do to another the same after begging for penance on the floor spilling my same sin over and over trembling in the brightness of my pink booth a light always providing in my pink booth and funneling fulfillment in my pink booth til we’re safe and secure in my pink booth my pink booth little by little is crumbling down I must go in one last time to empty out knowing just one more opening is all I get to hide away and truly repent but i don’t want to let go of what I want and miss all the juices I know will haunt and think it’s not too late to right a wrong even as alarms keep going off and they’ll ring in the walls of my pink booth going ding-dong-ding in my pink booth the clanging here to stay in my pink booth so I’ll sink all the way in my pink booth where the milkman sings in my pink booth and the half-wing wrings in my pink booth on the throne sits the king of my pink booth Mama don’t take away my pink booth Mama don’t take away my pink booth