Expensive Tastes

[Verse 1]

Strings attached, fake eyelashes

Broke apart the piggy bank for petty cash

Sensitive sister, blush and don't stare

Watch the children squabblin' in the square

Tip my hat, low windows

Once I saw you naked, there was nothing to show

Piano plays, sonata tempo

Of all the girls in our class she's the most refined

[Chorus]

I'd like to be there in the morning when you wake up

May be pipe dreams, but come Easter we could pack up

I'd like to be there in the morning when you wake up

May be pipe dreams, but come Easter we could pack up

[Verse 2]

I'd like to show up at your doorstep

Wearing the winter tie my neighbor tied

And meet your family, compliment cookin'

Drink the beer that your uncles are brewin'

Flat out refused to take that job

Just because i'm poor don't mean I can't be a snob

Strawberry hair, fair freckled skin

Waiting like a creep outside cotillion

Shy expression, shawl on her shoulders

Bought this house with money that your grandfather stole

Much too young, save imagination

Ruined an elegant girl's reputation

[Chorus]

I'd like to be there in the morning when you wake up

May be pipe dreams, but come Easter we could pack up

[Bridge]

Whoa, whoa

Whoa, oh

Whoa, whoa

Whoa, oh

Whoa, whoa

Whoa, oh

Whoa, whoa

Whoa, oh

[Verse 3]

And when they ask me my occupation

I'm a prayin' man working on my patience

I got no preference, politic party

Parents take away my car keys

Mass lets out, rollin' smokes for trades

Drink my weight in coffee at the penny arcade

Rows of shoes, shelves of jewelry

Mama's dyeing her hair in the vanity

Daddy's watch too tight, try silver spoon for size

Harder than a needle through a camel's eye

Folks gather 'round the table, find their place

Boy if that girl don't have expensive tastes