The Idler Wheel...

I guess I must just be a daredevil I don't feel anything until I smash it up I'm caught on the cold, caught on the hot Not so with the warmer lot And all I want's a confidant To help me laugh it off And don't let me ruin me I may need a chaperone Say

If I'm butter - if I'm butter- If I'm butter, then he's a hot knife, He makes my heart a cinemascope, He's showing the dancing bird of paradise. If I'm butter - if I'm butter- If I'm butter, then he's a hot knife, He makes my heart a cinemascope, He'

We made you make your overtures When you were a chauven'd orotund mutt And I was still a dewey petal Rather than a moribund slut My love wrecked you You packed to twirl your skirt at the palace It hurt more than it ought to hurt I went to work to cul

You didn't see my valentine I sent it via pantomime While you were watchin someone else I stared at you and cut myself Its all ill do cuz i'm not free A fugitive too dull to flee I'm amorous but out of reach A still life drawing of a peach I'm a tuli

Every single night I endure the flight Of little wings of white-flamed Butterflies in my brain These ideas of mine Percolate the mind Trickle down the spine Swarm the belly, swelling to a blaze That's where the pain comes in Like a second skeleton Tr

I could liken you to a werewolf the way you left me for dead But I admit that I provided a full moon And I could liken you to a shark the way you bit off my head But then again I was waving around a bleeding, open wound But you were such a super guy

I tell you how I feel, but you don't care I say tell me the truth, but you don't dare You say love is a hell you cannot bear And I say gimme mine back and then go there - for all I care I got my feet on the ground And I don't go to sleep to dream You