The Stranger

I'm drawn to you like a balloon

Floating in the sky for all eternity

I find myself confused

By something I've never known before

I trust you in complete solitude

Yet I don't know your name,

Yet I don't really need to know your name,

do I?

We looked at The Ogden

And thought to ourselves...

What would it be like to live there?

And then we both laughed

And had another drink

of the vodka that was instilled

within us

You are a terrible liar, you are

As the alcohol makes our skin glow

In this desert sun

You told me you would take advantage of me

But only with your eyes,

How dare you undress me with those beady

eyes

When you don't even know me?

Oh I feel so violated in this sun

The sun that is so depressing and blythe;

Blythe as a strung out ballerina

on her last dance

And I am the black swan

And you are the black crow

Dying to seek for a revelation

Oh Las Vegas, why must you take

advantage of me?

This stranger that endures my presence

Broke my balloon

In the eternal sky;

And it is kind of fun

To be drawn to someone

Less holy than I've expected

And he was the stranger

That wanted to take advantage of me

But couldn't,

Because my angels are a very strong team

And God is always with me

For Las Vegas is not a town for saints,

It is a town for the misfortunate;

And all that gleams

In the eyes of the less holy

Are the gleams of misfortune.

Please give my rose back to me, please

For I want to be holy again.