Maryland Bridge

I woke you up at four this morning

To whimper and to whine

To hear myself through spit and crackle

Of a poor long distance line

Twelve clever ways to say I love you

With words that always fail

Hang up and light a cigarette

Sit waiting for the mail

Some flyers from department stores

A, another get rich plan

A bill or two, some shampoo, and a note from Ed McMahon

Although you'll always be the one in which I will confide

Sometimes you're the razor on my private water slide

By the way, I got your letter yesterday

It said there's no need to be sad

It said that some things would never ever change

But that some already had

And I'd heard it from the corner of my ear

How that voice makes things right

And I'm sure there's something more than memory

Across the Maryland bridge tonight

How ominous these undercurrents

They crowd me now it seems

And every time I meet you in the darkness of my dreams

It's likely that I'll turn around and parody myself

Imagine we're in different places

Pretend we're someone else

Well, I can be J. Edgar Hoover

You be JFK

As power hungry egocentrics

We'll paper fight the nights away

Sometimes you're my nemesis

When I am paranoid

Sometimes I have doubts and worries

Too strong to avoid

By the way, I got your letter yesterday

It said there's no need to be sad

It said that some things would never ever change

But that some already had

And I'd heard it from the corner of my ear

How that voice makes things right

And I'm sure there's something more than memory

Across the Maryland bridge tonight

... Maryland bridge tonight