Lovers - Take Good Care lyrics

I'm leaving this city before i'm frozen
Before i'm stuck here right in
Place the highway may be strewn with sin
But it's proven again and again:
It's the only way i'm saved oh, chicago
You're as cold as the heart of the
Candidate the night of the inauguration
And like him, I don't expect you'll ever
Understand my situation i know, like him
Your heart don't break 'cause he
Grins as he's promising
The mess he's gonna make and then
He offers you a handshake
Saying, "no blood on my hands
Today" but when he grins
You see it's his teeth that are blood-stained

You told me once you were complicated
But i never knew with you what
To believe you said you
Never give your tricks away
For nothing and you
Always keep something up your sleeve you say
"this circus has three rings and
Nobody gets in for free"

Now your pretty eyes, don't blink or i've got
Nothing to look for your pretty hands, don't
Put 'em in your pockets or i've got
Nothing to reach for your pretty lips
Don't turn away don't pretend you've
Got nothing to say

See, mama, she was a poet, and at night
She'd recite her best verse but she said
"crumple this when i go and throw it from
The window of my speeding hearse" i had
It bad but you have it worse i had
It bad and you have it worse and
She said, "go out now go out now to
The streets, girl you go out there
Now you write your own life
Story and you alone
Decide if it's gonna be a magazine or poetry"

And your pretty eyes, don't blink or i've got
Nothing to look for your pretty hands, don't
Hide 'em in your pockets or i've got
Nothing to reach for your pretty lips
Don't turn away don't pretend
You've got nothing
To say you've got a lot to
Say you've got a lot to say
You've got a lot to say

And i wish, always, that i could thank you
But i guess i just don't know how
'cause you said the best thing
I could do for you is to
Take good care of myself
And you became a ghost before
You wanted and my heart
Is the home you've haunted and every time i
Hear the sirens sing
I feel footsteps inside of me
Like your heart beating, like
My heart beating, like your heart beating