Nails Lyrics

Album: Unknown

Things You Left Behind

A pair of stockings, a pair of shoes

 A record by The Moody Blues

 A bottle of Chanel No. 5

 A poster of a band called Dead or Alive

 A silk negligee and a black garter belt

 A book about how to get to know yourself

 A shirt you adopted used to be mine

 These are some of the things you left behind

 

 Paintings painted by a man you knew,

 someone you dated in '82

 An autographed picture of Junior Wells

 I didn't even know you liked soul that well

 Three pieces of paper with cryptic notes

 Cigarettes you never smoked

 A bag of beads and fishing line

 These are some of the things you left behind

 

 A dozen contraceptive sponges

 Anyone here got a rhyme for sponges?

 Dental floss, some baby powder

 Fourteen cans of clam chowder

 Forgotten how much you liked that stuff

 Sex and clams you couldn't get enough

 Your driver's license in '79

 These are some of the things you left behind

 

 A pack of rusty razor blades

 You threatened to use those things one day

 A nickel bag of Mexican pot

 You bought downtown in a parking lot

 A wedding band. Where'd that come from?

 Forget to tell me about someone?

 A bottle of cheap Italian wine

 These are some of the things you left behind

 

 A ticket stub to a Broadway play

 A button saying "Make My Day"

 A broken mirror with a lipstick smear

 A telephone number where the name's unclear

 Two pressed roses in a blank paged book

 Containing all the notes that you never took

 A Valentine card saying "Please Be Mine"

 These are some of the things you left behind

 

 A rosary, some holy cards

 A photo of your daddy's Brooklyn bar

 A list of possible job interviews

 A list I guess you chose not to use

 A glacine bag with a printed skull

 I didn't know things had gotten that dull

 A note on the door, one word, "Goodbye"

 These are some of the things you left behind

 

 A pair of stockings

 A garter belt

 An autographed picture of Junior Wells

 Cigarettes

 Dental floss

 Clam chowder

 A razor blade

 Wedding band

 Broken mirror with a lipstick smear

 A valentine card

 A rosary

 A glacine bag

 Heroin? Oh shit, not heroin

 One word, tacked up on my door

 One word….

 

 "Goodbye"