California Queen

Walk towards the bathroom
Doldrums banging in my head
My friends all-crawling after me
And clinging to my legs
Unhand me brothers Grimm
Don’t want to hear your sordid tale
Like the one you told me last night
Drove me way beyond the pale

40 days and 40 nights
With no mornings in between
I pledge allegiance to this way of life
And my off-the-kilter Queen
Perfectly obtuse until misfortune rules the day
Oh, and then she’s all-acute
But in the perfect kind of way

Please don’t do away with my California Queen
To be back in California well if that won’t be the dream
I ripped my Levis in the garden and I remembered where I’d been
Addicted and lost in the fog of a broken social scene

Spent an evening with miss universe
Not a patch on our miss world
I couldn’t help but stand and stare
At lips so rouged and hair so curled
Try so hard as yet I might
There’s one I just can’t keep away
Even when her soul’s so dark and twisted
And her clothes begin to fray

Began to think I’d petered out
And lost sight of my goals
But let’s be honest they’ve been changing
Since I was minus 9 months old
So ill throw myself in sideways
To this complicated dance
And I’ll tango with success
If I ever get the chance

Please don’t do away with my California Queen
To be back in California well if that won’t be the dream
I ripped my Levis in the garden and I remembered where I’d been
Addicted and lost in the fog of a broken social scene