- A Plague On Both Your Houses
Everybody, it's time to choose
Are you gunning for the reds or the blues?
In the end, it is the same old news
The one race that we will always lose
They make promises designed to please
But with their hands on the Number Ten keys
They take it all back, god damn it
Who needs enemies with MPs like these?
- A Quiet Understanding
You two were friends before we met
It's not my place to say it
And he seems like an honest guy
But he looks at you with hungry eyes, all of the time
The thought has never crossed your mind
You feel more like a sister
And he has lovers of his own
But they're more like pretty alibis, and he cannot disguise
- For God's Sake
The thought lays heavy on my mind
How can you be so unkind?
Looking for a common ground that we're never going to find
How can you be so unkind?
I still have dreams and things I want to do
But I never would tell you
'cause you take what I make
- Gary, Indiana
A dirt-poor child who could move like a king
Everybody loved to just hear him sing
And now he's dead
Yeah, he's dead
See that star? We pull it down from the sky
Crush it under foot, and still we don't know
We don't know
- It's Hard To Be A Gentleman
Baby, why don't you tell me the truth?
What is the worst I could do?
Tell me that I understand more than your man?
Darling, I don't pretend to know why
You can't even look me in my good eye
But I know that you could see right through
Naked shoulder blades and swollen glands
Sweaty fingers when we're holding hands
- Pretty Please
My girl's a beautiful girl, the apple of my eye
She gets paid to take her clothes off, and I wish so did I
Is it for attention? I just don't understand
She's my little Bettie Paige, and I'm her cameraman
And she sings, "Validate me, oh pretty please"
My Dad's an actor, he got the broadway blues