Loudon Wainwright Iii - Aphrodisiac lyrics

He was checking her out at the sound check She was sounding and looking real good Kind of a cross between Edith Piaf And little Red Riding Hood She was young enough to be his daughter And old enough to have been around Good enough to blow him off of that stage And good enough to bring her house down He said, "you must be my opening act." She said, "I've heard a lot about you." They made small talk about her direct box And all those record company blues. She must have gotten her dress sense from outta some comic book He could see that she was ambitious Underneath her waif-like look On the show-biz merry-go-round It's so hard to snag the reigns But there she was just starting out A future next-big-thing She was bound to be a critic's darling So you knew what she was gonna go through At first it feels like the tunnel of love But it can turn on you And then you're running a gauntlet That can seem like a marathon The next thing you're having your first come back And you're wondering where you gone Well he didn't need a protege He'd seen a star is born But he was sorely tempted More than slightly torn That night she got three encores And he got one But he took two They had dinner back at his hotel and Breakfast in bed too You know talent is an aphrodisiac And no they don't stock it on the shelves And they say that opposites attract But some people just love themselves They said good-bye in the lobby A one-night-stand had been enough He felt a little bit tender She'd been a little bit rough It hadn't been lust It wasn't real love They weren't even hardly lonely It was more like looking for something he'd lost And her morbid curiosity It was more like looking for something he'd lost And her morbid curiosity