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Gardenia Lyrics by Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks

Real Emotional Trash

2008

[Verse 1]
I kinda like the way you dot your "J"s
With giant circles of naïveté
The kind of circles include everything
Don't mean to damn you with the faintest phrase
It's just a symptom of the blithe age
Walter Lippmann, he would be amazed
[Pre-Chorus 1]
So you've got some curb appeal
But can you cook a three course meal?
Or are you just a present
Waiting to be opened up and parceled out again?
Hey!
[Chorus 1]
Well you are a gardenia
Pressed in the campaign journal
In the rucksack of an Afrikaner candidate for mild reform
[Verse 2]
It's like we're at a Ponzi scaminar
There's no escaping without a door prize
They're operating at significant loss
And now the way that you watch your weight
Richard Avedon, Richard Avedon would
Richard Avedon would surely approve
[Pre-Chorus 2]
So much for your curb appeal
So much for the three course meals
'Cause I am not a present
Waiting to be opened up and parceled out again
Hey!
[Chorus 2]
Well the torture of the Van Wyck Expressway
At 5pm on Friday
Gives you some idea of how rejection makes me feel
Well you are a gardenia
You are a gardenia
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Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks

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"Gardenia" appears on "Real Emotional Trash" in 2008.

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