Last Dance Rodeo

Last Dance Rodeo
(Jewel Kilcher)

Goodbye Alice in Wonderland

Your lungs fill up with concrete
Her voice is all you can hear
Red lips and a screwdriver
Wrapped around some mink-clad queer
And you know that she's no diamond
In this damn juke box hell)
Cause only fools gold fools fools
In two-bit hotels
But she's cooler than all that
A real high-class cat
Queen of the last dance rodeo

But under the gas lamp
The air is thick and velvetine
Your bones fill with hunger
Your heart fills with longing
You're no longer human
You're an insatiable hole
You wanna bury your face forever
In the navel of her soul
Cause you know

All you need is a heart to call home
All you need is a heart to call home
That's all

Light bulbs, and nylons
And plastic chandeliers
Objects are only objects
They can't feel when you're near
But tangerine lips and lily-white breasts
These things are eternal
Inside them humanity rests
The skin is like a seashell
You listen to her soul
Like an old-time radio show

Cause under the gas lamp
The air is thick and velvetine
Your bones fill with hunger
Your heart fills with longing
You're no longer human
You're an insatiable hole
You wanna bury your face forever
In the navel of her soul
'Cause you know

All you need is a heart to call home
All you need is a heart to call home
That's all

But don't wander too far
My one constant star
Darkness exists, except where you are
My feet are filled with wandering
They follow your own
Cause everywhere you are
Feels like home

So search all you miners
You hunters of dreams
Look in the alleyways
For what you know is not what it seems
And feign all you maidens,
But don't resist too long
Lest you look behind you
And see your own shadow is gone
Don't you know it's the last rodeo
You gotta find yourself a cowboy
Or someone to keep you
Warm when it's cold

All you need is a heart to call home
All you need is a heart
All you need is a heart to call home
That's all