Look at this chain of sorrows
 Stretching all the way from here and now to hell and gone

 I was Kid Clean
 She was Anne de Siecle
 Just a thrill away from punching through to the cosmic wow

 It started out good
 Then it got lots better
 Makin' up the rules as we went along
 But with a business like this
 There's an gnarly downside

 CHORUS:
 I'm way deep into nothing special
 Riding the crest of a wave breaking just west of Hollywood

 Swingin' so hard
 We burned right through the summer
 Till the axis of pain/pleasure sheared the arc of desire

 From the Rebus affair
 To the streets of Culver City
 Places and events slip below the horizon line

 Now at this time
 Into our pretty story
 The truth compels us
 To bring a certain name
 Meet if you will
 Doctor Warren Kruger

 CHORUS


 She reached out for my hand
 While I watched myself lurch across the room
 And I almost got there

 Look in my eyes
 Can't you see the core is frozen?
 You can't ask me to access the dreams I don't have now

 Sadly for us
 Our little talk is over
 So together we'll endure the tyranny of the disallowed

 Don't you love Port Blanc
 When Hooterie is over
 When the girls get easy and the crowds are gone
 A weekend of bliss
 Then the rainy season

 CHORUS