Once I found a book of purple prose
About a Fashionista in a Brooklyn overdose
So hard to be gorgeous and obscure
When you're both the sickness and the cure
Meanwhile out in Jersey I can't sleep
Gotta line in my head so shallow it's deep
If only I could have Miss Molly Young
I'd leave you just to sing a song unsung
This here's a midlife crisis
And you're some bleak terrain
But I might stay if you might play
And help me ease the pain
Amuse me - Confuse me
Just don't bore me senseless
Release me
Don't freeze me out
'Cause I got no defenses
Now I'm no prize
I said it and it's true
I gotta lotta nerve just singing this to you
But it's my party
And I've wanted this since birth
A big TV and manufactured mirth
Now don't you change the channel
Until that batter whiffs
Though I know you love that show
About the failed facelift
This here's a midlife crisis
And you're some bleak terrain
But I might stay if you might play
And help me ease the pain
Back to a book of purple prose
'Bout a Brooklyn fashionista's overdose
Said she took a trip
Like Nelly Bly
Around the world
Let's live before we die
Amuse me - Confuse me
Just don't bore me senseless
Release me- Don't freeze me out
'Cause I got no defenses
Well I've seen the Rapture coming, Lord
Then I cleaned my lenses
Don't pray for me
Just stay for me
'Cause I need your consensus
In the wisdom she dispenses
And I got no defenses