Precious Metals

"Paul Simon & Precious Metals"

You said your life's a house of cards,

and it teeters on the brink

On the edges of window ledges,

until like a great ship down it sinks

Into the sea bed, with sunken gold

And words that we said

back when You used to think that your life was

precious metals and rose petals

But now as you're growing up you're finding

it's nail-biting and teeth-grinding

That crown you wore with the Rhinestones is

now just thorns, needles and pinecones

And here's one last thing that you must learn too;

what keeps you warm can also burn you

Time's sinister sundials make your days hard as city streets

You fall in traps, jet black in the hole that your self-pity eats

I'm playing cards real close to my chest

so you can't see what I've got

One minute we're sub-zero and in the

same breath piping hot because

When we are up, we're up and then

when we are down, we're down

Cars crash in perfect fashion but they

don't seem to make a sound and now

When I'm hanging with you it feels like I'm hanging myself

Now my phone's off the hook and I lay low, lie low, I go stealth

You used to think that your life was

precious metals and Rose petals

But now as you're growing up you're finding

it's nail-biting and teeth-grinding

That crown you wore with the Rhinestones is now

just thorns, needles and pinecones

And here's one last thing that you must learn too;

what keeps you warm can also burn you

You said your life's a house of cards, and it teeters on the brink

On the edges of window l-e-d-g-e-s,

Watch the clouds move up above, As we slowly start to fade

You and I had things that cut like a razor blade

by og