This Aphrodite Life

It's like rose petals falling from the sky
While rainbows arch their backs in the night
Illuminating the opal in a thousand swans eyes
That's what it's like
This Aphrodite life

She’s plum pretty
Like a cavity gathers sweet
Like a lemon lingers on lips
Like a pearl nestles the sea
Precious as a fawn
Rising from its knees
She’s drops of honey
Dripping from a bonsai tree

If Marilyn Monroe took you by the hand
Blushed at your touch and asked for this dance
Led you out onto the cobblestone streets of France
That's what it's like
This Shakespeare romance

She’s Alladin’s lamp
With two wishes left to go
The grace of a pirouette
The lights of a Broadway show
Enchanting as the dolphins
In waters peppered with snow
She’s the end of the rainbow
On a chardonnay road

It's apples with sugar and Cristal champagne
Under a rain forest canopy in a Costa Rican rain
With toucans singing a Spanish refrain
That's what it's like
This hurricane flame

 

Alice's Teacup

Girl, it’s all that I can do

To not bite my tongue straight through
Goddamn, to tell you how I feel
Are you the bait waiting on the reel
With them eyes deep as a summer dawn
I’ll burn to ashes in your morning sun
And I don’t care if I die right there
Leave my body with your scent in the air
You’re the dream I’ve been dreaming to be dreaming
That heart is what I’m scheming to be stealing
Just to love you till God calls you home
Then I’ll follow you on down the road

 

Take my hand, we’ll run on the ocean
Jesus will meet us and ask what we’re smoking
He’ll give us a beer, we’ll give him a light
Then he’ll take off into the night
I’ll be the Batman, you can be Robin
We’ll take this life like the city of Gotham
Ride through the streets running from the cops
Making all the villain's jaws drop
Don’t need no guns, don’t need no knives
Just what we got is what’s just right
Taste the taste they pour into fairy tales
Be the heat steaming off the rails

 

Girl, this is how it has to be
Tempt you like tinsel on Christmas Eve
Make you need what you thought you’d never want
Make you go where you thought you would’ve stopped
They’re gonna tell you all these rhymes aren’t true
But that’s just beige being jealous of the blue
There’s not a single lie woven in this song
Little darling, sip a drip from this taffy tongue
Every wish you’ve ever wished upon a star
I’ve got ‘em all gathered all here in my arms
There’s not a hope of yours left lost in the night
And this is no illusion, you’re just blinded by the light