Lyrics

Paper Doll

You sit your pretty self right down into that chair
You slip the words I wanna hear right in my ears
You give the meat we want to eat no matter what it takes
I should not care, I do not care, no matter what the stakes

Let me slow it down for you and talk to my machine
Maybe she?ll relate to me the messages you see
I?m sorry what I say does not suit your mind so well
Pretentious paper doll, don?t get carried in the swell

The gray matter that you walk on is just the same as mine
I think that?s why I grit my teeth, we are of the same mind
The guiltiness I feel when I think the way you do
Drop the hat, my mind will change, I?m sure that yours will too

There is a freedom out there, one that we should find
It will let us write and freely pose all the questions in our minds
It won?t get caught up in what we think we are supposed to feel
It will only let us write what we know in our hearts is real

98 and almost blind is when we will come to see
an escaping breath of truth might come from you and me
Pretentious paper doll don?t get carried by the swell
Pretentious paper doll you?ve been carried in the swell

And I burn you my paper doll
Laughing out loud as the ashes fall
And I burn you my paper doll
Laughing out loud as the ashes fall