Doll You Chase

I just found myself living someone else's life
Penthouse in Manhattan West 59th
Four blocks from the top of the park
I grabbed a bagel, two coffees and the bike and I'm off
The sun comes up as I enter uptown on the FDR drive
Roosevelt Island on the right hand side
Roses in the satin jacket pocket of my suit eau de cologne on the tie

I cried too quick
I found your wish
Don't wash that wine glass too quick
Staring like a porcelain doll with a blank face
But when you lie in her
She's the hollow doll you chase

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

That's what she told me crying from a distance
I responded "yeah" in sarcastic resistance
But I know what I've done and I know who I've hurt
And her knowing makes me have an aversion to my existence

She found herself living someone else's life
A life that was never meant for her
A life that was meant for my new baby girl
Life then just seemed always hand in hand
You cut mine off and gave yours to another man

My past was checkered and her dress was too
Just like the cab that she left in with money for the fool
How to be cruel is what they taught her in school
The 45 plays in a sentimental mood
But it doesn't end with a note from Ellington
Instead, it ends with a note from you

I cried too quick
I found your wish
Don't wash that wine glass too quick
Staring a porcelain doll with a blank face
But when you lie in her
She's the hollow doll you chase

And then I told her with skillful insistence
One day I will be apart of her riddance and she though I was joking
That's not unusual but this time around I might have to risk it

Now a clove pink carnation awaits you on the parsons table
Is that Manhattan apartment palatial?
Did he ever tell you that this love was fatal?
His hands in a witches broom yours in a cats cradle

I still want her now
I bet you she would ask "what for?"
And now I've done the appraisal
And I'm afraid she wants you more