8in8, Amanda Palmer, Damien Kulash, Neil Gaiman, Ben Folds - Nikola Tesla lyrics

I met Nikola Tesla in a diner in New York
He was eating cotton candy in the dark
I sat down at his table and
I asked him for a light
When his eyes met mine I
Thought I felt a spark

His glance was like an X-Ray and
He looked me to the bone
A touch from him my blood began to boil
It was the 24th of March he
Had a really cute moustache
And then he kissed me in an alley
And I felt my insides coil

Nikola Tesla i wish you’d invent a
Current that could activate my heart
Mysterious Gesture i do not expect you
Come back from 1932
I’ll always burn a light for you sweetheart

I’d dreamed of someone like you ever
Since I was a girl
A mystery man inventing something new
Just a guy with a transformer who
Could make me something warmer
Who could open up my circuitry
And make me someone new

When Edison got angry my Nikola only grinned
And explained that wireless power was the way
He’d overturn the system there was
No way to resist him
And he kissed me one more time and
Told me he’d come back one day

Edison’s enemy man who gave us AC
He’ll always be to me my little Serb

Voice on the radio i’m looking high and low
Here in the afterglow send me a word

So I waited while the valves inside
My heart all dimmed and chilled
He had secrets that he
Stored inside eight chests
And he took his many mysteries
And walked off into history
And he left me with a fading
Sort of feeling in my breast

I’ve been waiting here for decades
Just a dusty afterthought
I’ve been waiting for Nikola to come back
It is painful and ironic
Not to mention electronic
That he’d vanish in a crackle
Into air and fade to black