Precious Metals

"Paul Simon & Precious Metals"
You said your life's a house of cards,
and it teeters on the brink
On the edges of window ledges,
until like a great ship down it sinks
Into the sea bed, with sunken gold
And words that we said
back when You used to think that your life was
precious metals and rose petals
But now as you're growing up you're finding
it's nail-biting and teeth-grinding
That crown you wore with the Rhinestones is
now just thorns, needles and pinecones
And here's one last thing that you must learn too;
what keeps you warm can also burn you
Time's sinister sundials make your days hard as city streets
You fall in traps, jet black in the hole that your self-pity eats
I'm playing cards real close to my chest
so you can't see what I've got
One minute we're sub-zero and in the
same breath piping hot because
When we are up, we're up and then
when we are down, we're down
Cars crash in perfect fashion but they
don't seem to make a sound and now
When I'm hanging with you it feels like I'm hanging myself
Now my phone's off the hook and I lay low, lie low, I go stealth
You used to think that your life was
precious metals and Rose petals
But now as you're growing up you're finding
it's nail-biting and teeth-grinding
That crown you wore with the Rhinestones is now
just thorns, needles and pinecones
And here's one last thing that you must learn too;
what keeps you warm can also burn you
You said your life's a house of cards, and it teeters on the brink
On the edges of window l-e-d-g-e-s,
Watch the clouds move up above, As we slowly start to fade
You and I had things that cut like a razor blade
by og