My Dark Life

[Verse 1]

She says nobody wants to believe

You're the same as everyone

What makes me unique?

My Dark Life

There was a kink in the world

Sent that statue tumbling

An invitation east

So we could watch it all crumbling

She came on like a light

And so softly she spoke

"You don't know, you don't know about my dark life"

And you think you're a guest, you're a tourist at best

Peering into the corners of my dark life

Now that you tear your dreams from consumptive ballerinas

She'll stand on tiptoe for you in a grey and tattered tutu

She stays where she is because of voyeurs like these

With an accusative look that says, "My Dark Life"

Robber men await you then in each beguiling alley

To shake you and to pierce you and remind you of

My dark life

Enter the pious elite in their preening finery

And bang the tambourine

They're dining on rice paper scenery

See how the villain attracts envious glances from everyone

She's waitressing by day

It doesn't bring in much money now

And his strong concealed arms set off bells and alarms

In the strangest locations of My Dark Life

But the fantasy slipped as he tipped her in cigarettes

She tries to smile very graciously when she wants to kill him

Now the victory is sweet, you'll get down on your knees

It's the perfect position for kissing western leather

So they came from Ugly, Texas, and from Nameless, Tennessee

From Peculiar, Missouri, and from places closer to me

All the cream of heartless England cheered "The Carnival is Over"

Then remnants of Red Army bandsmen

Played "America the Beautiful"