Gardenia

Album: Post Pop Depression (2016)
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  • Gardenia
    Where are you?
    Black goddess in a shabby raincoat
    Where are you tonight?
    Cheap purple baby-doll dress
    A gardenia in your hair
    Much taller and stronger than me
    A forbidden dream, a dream, a dream

    All I wanna do is tell Gardenia
    What to do tonight

    All I wanna do is tell Gardenia
    What to do tonight

    Gardenia
    Where are you, tonight?
    The streets were your home
    Now where do you roam?
    Your hourglass ass
    And your powerful back
    Your slant devil eyes
    And the ditch down your spine
    Deep ass, deep ass

    All I wanna do is tell Gardenia
    What to do tonight

    All I wanna do is tell Gardenia
    What to do tonight

    We lay in the darkness
    Then she turned the lights on
    I saw a dangerous habit
    When she turned the lights on
    There's always a catch
    In the darkness when you
    When you turn the lights on
    There's always a catch
    Oh well, oh well, oh well, oh well

    All I wanna do is tell Gardenia
    What to do tonight

    All I wanna do is tell Gardenia
    What to do tonight

    Alone in the cheapo motel
    By the highway to hell
    America's greatest living poet
    Was ogling you all night
    You should be wearing the finest gown
    But here you are now
    Gas, food, lodging, poverty, misery
    And Gardenia
    You could be burned at the stake
    For all your mistakes, mistakes, mistakes

    All I wanna do is tell Gardenia
    What to do tonight

    All I wanna do is tell Gardenia
    What to do tonight

    Hey! Turn the lights on again
    Alright hey out there, hi
    Look, if I was hitchhikin' would you fuckin' pick me up?
    'Cause I'm nothin' but a fuckin' passenger
    Can I get what? The passenger? Can I fuckin' do it? Writer/s: DEAN FERTITA, James Newell Osterberg, JOSHUA HOMME
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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