DUSTY ROSES

Trying my best to walk straight in a row
Feeling just like Edgar Allen Poe
And wishing I had someplace good to go
It was election time
Streetlights were out and the bars they were closed
And I'm saying to myself its just not the ending I chose
And the Statue of Liberty
Looks out to sea - says who knows
Maybe tomorrow - maybe tomorrow

And she said I don't want your dusty roses
I can't stand to mix beauty with tragedy
And she said I don't want your Dusty Roses
There's just no place in the life of a girl like me

We could take courses I could brush up on my French
Move to Paris try and live like artists
I was gonna say more and then I forgot all the rest
Sometimes that's better
Cause even I'm betting bored staying up till sunrise
Walking down these streets - Thinking of everything I'd like to buy
And me and my friends we get way too high
But I don't blame them
No, I don't blame them