Pearl in the Palm

There is not much worse could be done to me
Than lonely love, lonely love
This could be the verse ignominy festers inside of
Johan Strauss in the closet composes a Waltz

As the sayin' goes
I feel like a tethered dove with a broken nose, you know
As the sayin' goes
I feel like I'm close enough to hear the very grass grow
You know, you know, you know, you know, hey

I lost
I lost
I lost
And no one won

Champagne for everybody here
And real pain (real pain) for everybody else
Sally said, "Everything is happenin' here, right now"
"It's all misery and sufferin' in all else"
"It's true", she said, "I read it" ah

As the sayin' goes
I feel like a tethered dove with a broken nose, you know
As the sayin' goes
I feel like I'm close enough to hear the very grass grow
You know, you know, you know, you know, hey

Hey
Hey, hey
Hey

Supermarket doors kiss the air all day, all night
A ruffle in the curtains up above, I watch on
Like a pearl in the palm my dear, a pearl in the palm
It was all that I could do to hold on, hold on

I lost
I lost
I lost
And no one won