Ashes to Ashes

You can walk like a stranger, head back in your ear
Bringing gifts while you act so sincere
Bringing gifts for a boy who's five years
Looking for rocks and training in wheels

Well I don't remember you from any of those books
Ashes to ashes and six feet under, face down in a box
Where'd you ever learn to treat me like that?

You don't seem to have any of that family stuff
You know the hardwood floor's long, that penalty's rough
Your bad luck follows you like a heart attack
Twist your fingers soon as break your back

Well I don't remember you from any of those books
Ashes to ashes and six feet under, face down in a box
Where'd you ever learn to treat me like that?

It's coming from another with a mother who's just like yours
Bringing you headaches and all those mental sores
Taking little halves so you need some for yourself
Like the needy and the greedy always seem by themselves
Well, you must perhaps be one of these
Hiding under shade under your family tree
Didn't I meet you once in a liquor store?
I think I saw you hanging by the stage door
Handing out programs to the family theater
To prime your role so you don't miss a treater

You take it in the wild, you take it in the fast
You never gave yourself a chance
Well I don't remember you from any of those books
Ashes to ashes and six feet under, face down in a box
Where'd you ever learn to treat me like that?