The Prince Of The Hanging Gardens

I'm a lazy student
 In a circular library
 With a glass ceiling
 And a parquet floor
 After graduation
 I'm gonna go to the Amazon
 In search of a pigment
 That I want on my wall
 Hold me
 Scold me
 Extol me
 Console me
 Through the 90s
 And the 80s
 And the Tigris
 The Euphrates
 And after all that I've said
 I want you to know me
 I want you to throw me
 In the river
 So the clouds that follow my head
 Can finally rain down
 On all your hydrangeas
 I never had a doubt that you would come through
 I always adored you
 I always ignored you
 Just to make you try harder
 To do what you do
 I had to be awful
 Just to keep you from danger
 Come stand at my window
 With a view of suburbia
 As it marks out the borders
 Of my opulent grounds
 I'm rich but I'm troubled;
 There's a worm in my Bougainvillaea
 Why do you plague me
 When my ethics are sound?
 Hold me
 Scold me
 Extol me
 Console me
 Through the 90s
 And the 80s
 Through the waters
 Of Issey
 And after all that I've said
 I want you to know me
 I want you to throw me
 In the river
 So the clouds that follow my head
 Can finally rain down
 On all your hydrangeas
 I never had a doubt that you would come through
 I always adored you
 I always ignored you
 Just to make you try harder
 To do what you do
 I had to be awful
 Just to keep you from danger
 And after all I've said
 It's academia
 How could I be so faithful
 To the Queen of Media?
 Through the 90s
 And the 80s
 In the AD
 And the BC
 Through the Xanthus
 And the Yangtze
 And the Niger
 And the Ganges
 Hold me
 Fold me
 Control me
 Cajole me
 And release me
 On the Lethe
 And the ichor
 Through my body
 And after all that I've said
 I want you to know me
 I want you to throw me
 In the river
 So the clouds that follow my head
 Can finally rain down
 On all your hydrangeas
 I never had a doubt that you would come through
 I always adored you
 I always ignored you
 Just to make you try harder
 To do what you do
 I had to be awful
 Just to keep you from danger
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 I'm a lazy student
 In a circular library
 With a glass ceiling
 And a parquet floor
 After graduation
 I'm gonna go to the Amazon
 In search of a pigment
 That I want on my wall
 Hold me
 Scold me
 Extol me
 Console me
 Through the 90s
 And the 80s
 And the Tigris
 The Euphrates
 And after all that I've said
 I want you to know me
 I want you to throw me
 In the river
 So the clouds that follow my head
 Can finally rain down
 On all your hydrangeas
 I never had a doubt that you would come through
 I always adored you
 I always ignored you
 Just to make you try harder
 To do what you do
 I had to be awful
 Just to keep you from danger
 Come stand at my window
 With a view of suburbia
 As it marks out the borders
 Of my opulent grounds
 I'm rich but I'm troubled;
 There's a worm in my Bougainvillaea
 Why do you plague me
 When my ethics are sound?
 Hold me
 Scold me
 Extol me
 Console me
 Through the 90s
 And the 80s
 Through the waters
 Of Issey
 And after all that I've said
 I want you to know me
 I want you to throw me
 In the river
 So the clouds that follow my head
 Can finally rain down
 On all your hydrangeas
 I never had a doubt that you would come through
 I always adored you
 I always ignored you
 Just to make you try harder
 To do what you do
 I had to be awful
 Just to keep you from danger
 And after all I've said
 It's academia
 How could I be so faithful
 To the Queen of Media?
 Through the 90s
 And the 80s
 In the AD
 And the BC
 Through the Xanthus
 And the Yangtze
 And the Niger
 And the Ganges
 Hold me
 Fold me
 Control me
 Cajole me
 And release me
 On the Lethe
 And the ichor
 Through my body
 And after all that I've said
 I want you to know me
 I want you to throw me
 In the river
 So the clouds that follow my head
 Can finally rain down
 On all your hydrangeas
 I never had a doubt that you would come through
 I always adored you
 I always ignored you
 Just to make you try harder
 To do what you do
 I had to be awful
 Just to keep you from danger
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