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Charming and Plastic Lyrics by Jay Bennett

Bigger Than Blue

2004

Well, he was charming and plastic
With words elastic
He stretched the truth to a lie
With chrome, paper, and porcelain
He fed every morsel
And extinguished the spark in your eye

He had the ways and the means of the slot machines
He kept 'em in stiches it was all so seamless
It was all an act; I think I should know
And I don't want you back if only for show

Well, he made love like machinery
Cached on the greenery
With his hеad in the clouds
You were thе pain in his ankles
You were far too thankful
To say I love you out loud
The air was thin where his head had been
He kept Polaroid pictures of all his sins

Well, it was all an act; I think I would know
And I want you back if only for show
There'll always be people, people like me, yeah
Always, always the way
Why do I feel something new?
When there's nothing left to say
It looks like merely Friday night
It's Saturday

He moved like Billy Bob Thorton meets
The Reverend Horton Heat
Who's J. Edgar Hoover in drag
So, he made his weekly pilgrimage
To sharpen his image, he got him some vanity tags
He bought the "Sammy Cohn Songbook for Beginners"
He's a corduroyed cat-walked original sinner
There air in 1990 wasn't frightening
But fifty violins left you excited

I want you back, I think you should know
And it was all an act, I think I would know
I want you back, I think you should know
And it was all an act, I think I would know
I want you back...
I want you back...
I wany you back...
I want you back...
I want you back...
I want you back...

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"Charming and Plastic" appears on "Bigger Than Blue" in 2004.

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