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Gardenia Tab

by Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks





                           
I kinda like the way you dot your "J"s
                  
With giant circles    of naïveté
                         
The kind of circles include everything
                                 
Don't mean to damn you with the faintest praise
                     
It's just a symptom    of the blithe age
                      
Walter Lippmann, he would be amazed.
                     
So you've got some curb appeal
                             
But can you cook a three course meal?
                                                
Or are you just a present waiting to be opened up and parceled out again? Hey!

Interlude B riff:
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You are a gardenia, pressed
                 
in the campaign journal in the 
            
rucksack of an Afrikaner 
              
candidate for mild reform.

                          
It's like we're at a Ponzi scam-inar
                          
There's no escaping      without a door prize
                                  
They're operating at significant loss.
                            
And now the way that you watch your weight,
                           
Richard Avedon,       Richard Avedon would,
                         
Richard Avedon would surely approve.
                     
So much for your curb appeal.
                          
So much for the three course meals.
                                                
'Cause I am not a present waiting to be opened up and parceled out again. Hey!

< riff>

             
The torture of the Van Wyk 
            
Expressway at 5  p.m. on 
                  
Friday gives you some idea of 
                 
how rejection makes me feel.
                          
Well you are a gardenia,
                           
You are a gardenia.