Lyrics : S

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She Loves a Puppet
(E/Jenifer Condos)
Broken Toy Shop

Don't know why
She thinks she loves him
Don't go cry
He's just a toy
She calls it only love
Her love is not pure

She loves a Puppet
She loves a puppet
And all I can do is cry

Got no soul
Only a haircut
He's no man
barely a boy
Why cant she understand that
That I am her true love

She loves a puppet
She loves a puppet
He's made of flesh and blood

His footsteps make a heavy thud
His porch light's on
But no one is home
I'd love to make her mine
But I have to wonder why
She loves a puppet

Shine It All On
(E / Parthenon Huxley)
Broken Toy Shop

Tarot cards
Said I'm already dead
Crystal Ball
Fell down onto my head
Tenderness
If I want I pay
My true love
Well she threw it away

But I can shine it all on
I can shine it all on
I can shine it all on
And still be amazed

Had some money
And a hole in my pocket
Had a house
But I forgot to lock it
Took a drag
From a smoke that may kill me
What a drag
How the wintr wind chills me

I can shine it all on
I can shine it all on
I can shine it all on
And still be amazed

I'll shine it on just like macbeth
In the face of certain dead
Of a salesman of a king
And when the palm trees are on fire
I'll take my boat out on the sea

Had a face
But I never could save it
Had a kid
But I never would name it
Have a life
Well that's what they call it
It's a road
but I guess I could crawl it

Someone To Break The Spell
(E/Jenifer Condos/Anderson/Hoffs)
Broken Toy Shop

You up there
Don't you think there's something you can do ?
Well no one has ever told me it was going to be this way
Me down here
Well look at all of the things I try to do
Every day's another day
But nothing else is new

Everything I see is broken
There's no water in the well
Oh, wont you please send me someone to break the spell

Well, is it me
Or is it everyone else who comes around ?
They always stay a little while
But they're gone before too long
Hey, you up there
Looking donw upon this sorry scene
Is is what it's all about
Or is this some bad dream ?

Everything I see is broken
There's no water in the well
Oh wont you please send me someone to break the spell ?

I've got a million dreams stuck inside my head
If I could live a few before I'm dead

Everything I see is broken
There's no water in the well
Oh wont you please send me someone to break the spell ?

Spunky
(E)
Beautiful Freak

Spunky don't like her uniform
It never fit so good
Going back to the orphanage and the place where her garage once stood

Well it's a free for all, free for all, free for all
It's a free for all, you and me
And if you don't like what they are telling you
You can't teach a blind man to see
Well i can see

Spunky looks good in her bright red wig
Eating chocolate chip mint ice cream
A cat named lola with a violent past is balled up asleep 'cross her knees

And it's a free for all, free for all, free for all
It's a free for all, you and me
One day the world will be ready for you
And wonder how they didn't see

Spunky knows she can save the world in her own little way
Turning in her old uniform
'cause, you know, it really didn't pay

'Cause it's a free for all, free for all, free for all
It's a free for all, you and me
I walk through the world with your name on my tongue
And your picture etched on my screen

Standing At The Gate
(E)
Broken Toy Shop

So what ya gonna do about me ?
I been hangin' 'round a while
Trading books and knowing glances
I tought I'd stick around
But this really ain't my style

So this ain't heaven on earth
Looks like we'll have to wait
But we are standing at the gate

I took a look inside your attic
and secret shelves and hidden rooms
It didn't scare me when I saw it
Your hidden attic is no temple of doom

And this ain't heaven on earth
looks like we'll have to wait
But we are standing at the gate

So what ya gonna do about me ?
Put me on a secret shelf ?
I wanna change myself around
You know I'd do it
If I tought that it would help

Susan's House
(E/Jim Jacobson/Jim Weatherly)
Beautiful Freak

Going over to susan's house
Walking south down baxter street
Nothing hiding behind this picket fence
There's a crazy old woman smashing bottles on the sidewalk where her house burnt down two years ago
People say that back then, she really wasn't that crazy

Going over to susan's house
Going over to susan's house
She's gonna make it right

Down by the Donut Prince a fifteen year old boy lies on the sidewalk with a bullet in his forehead
In a final act of indignity, the paramedics take off all his clothes
For the whole world to see while they put him in the bag
Meanwhile, an old couple argues inside the queen bee
The sick fluorescent light shimmering on their skin

Going over to susan's house
Going over to susan's house
I can't be alone tonight

Take a left down echo park, a kid asks do I want some crack?
Teevee sets are spewing "baywatch" through the windows into black

Here comes a girl who can't be more than seventeen
She sucks on a red popsicle while she pushes a baby girl in a pink carriage
And I'm thinking, "that must be her sister...that must be her sister...right?"
They go into the seven-eleven
And I keep walking
And I keep walking

Going over to susan's house