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Last Straw Tab

by Jacks Mannequin


                                 
I heard that you went out last night and you looked beautiful 
                                              
Just like a bat beneath the moonlight. I stayed home took a Vicodin... 
                                                     
Sometimes it's all that I can do when I think about the president 
                                 
How did he become the president? 
                                   
And I stayed awake for a day or two, 
                         
I thought about the world, drank gin and watched the news 
                                            
And there are some things I'll never understand 
                                      
Why a country needs a God, and a woman needs a man 


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And you never write me letters 
                    
And you never sent my sweaters 
                              
So I could stay warm when I was without you 
                          
Without you I don't sleep, Just dream... 


                         
And I scratch these words into a black notebook 
                       
I wrote your name on top I knew you'd never look 
                       
I tried my best to fight the atmosphere 
                           
To think the happy thoughts, that leave the phone lines clear 
                                     
I see Arizona stars from here....But Peter Pan is miles away 


                     
And you never write me letters 
                    
And you never sent my sweaters 
                              
So I could stay warm when I was without you 
                  
Without you I don't have... 
                               
A place that's safe from all the monsters 
                                   
That hide in my head and sing me to sleep, sleep 

This is the last straw... 

                                                        
This is the last straw she said
                         
And I won't wait for you forever 
                                
While you run around like JFK
                                     
You watched that poor girl waste the best years of her life 
                                                                           
And I'll be damned if I am going out, I will not go out that way

                     
And you never write me letters 
                    
And you never sent my sweaters 
                              
So I could stay warm when I was without you 
                  
Without you I don't have... 
                               
A place that's safe from all the monsters 
                                     
That hide in my head and keep me 'til dawn 
            
I think.... this is the last straw.