Starry Configurations (live, 5-13-98, Black Cat, D.C.) - Jets To Brazil

“starry configurations am just a receiver / divine recombinations am just a recordist / receptionist - unhappy medium / receptionist - unhappy medium /

excellent accommodations am just a bellboy / beautiful surroundings am just some gravel / or peat moss, what have you / or peat moss, what have you now? /

why must you treat me like you do? / don’t you know it’s all for you /

dear infatuation, you do not see me / die here beside you in see-through obscurity / governess, fancy less, we’ll sound the alarm / and drum up some simpleton for you / to eat these apples from your eyes /

emptiness fills room / your love’s bud goes full bloom / you don’t love me / aren’t thinking of me / why am I waiting for you to see I’m alive /

storybook ending am just a ledger / hardly worth a mention or the paper / it’s written on and cried upon / and kissed once by wax / but still you treat me like you do / with everything I’ve done for you /

striking like a bird of prey along your notepad now / the only ear that turns your way /

my dear diary: it’s just you and me tonight / you don’t love me / aren’t thinking of me / you don’t love me / aren’t thinking of me tonight / why am I waiting for you to see I’m alive?”