Amanda Palmer - Melody Dean lyrics

I never met a lady Quite as pretty as Melody Dean And when I laid my head Down on her heart It beated out your name And so I had to listen To her heartbeat Several hundred times And she was very nice about it Held my hand and didn't mind I never put my foot in the same river twice I don't like getting wet You take the good You take the bad You take it all And that is all you get The fact is you would rather I be lonely In a bathtub with a book The fact is you would rather I sat pining On our pictures from New York New York, New York, New York But I get torn to pieces For the stupidest reasons All I want's to love the one I'm with Just like the song says I don't like picking sides I don't like sticking My Sharona in a box I like to spread her out on different crackers, yeah I like the way she looks And when I go to bed at night With Melody undressing in my head To get to sleep You know that I would rather be undressing you instead Instead, instead, instead I never met a lady Quite as pretty as Melody Dean And even though I know you are A little bit angry with me You know that it is you I love And you I want to get me off But you can only do that when you're here And right now you are not I never cross the Continental Divide Without thinking about you I am a tree that's carved up with her name She is a warrior tattoo And the fact is you're selective About what you can remember for a start The fact is you're just jealous as all get out We can do it in the dark The dark, the dark, the dark But I get torn to pieces for the stupidest reasons All I want's to love the one I'm with Like Stephen Stills says I never met a lady Quite as pretty as Melody Dean And even though I know you are A little bit angry with me You know that it is you I love And you I want to get me off But you can only do that when you're here And right now you are not