Bank of Boston Beauty Queen - The Dresden Dolls

I’ve tried dolls that were guaranteed sixteen or under, none were very exciting

Sorta like a laugh track or whacking off, they’ll get you off, but it’s just

not the real thing

It’s been decades since my pit days

But I haven’t shaken it — I sit there like an idiot

Still wrapped up in the old punk protocol

And dreaming that the teenagers will think that I’m a radical

And I still wait for the bus to come where the high school got torn down

Still expecting to find true love among the skateboarders hanging out

The back of the bank in my hometown

All this talk and no action’s got me stiff from the tit to the bone

So I’m living in la-la-land, but at least I’m not living at home

Same old catcall same old chemicals

Same old thrills stealing stockings from the shopping mall

It’s easy enough to grow the fuck up happy with the rough cut

Nobody’s really looking for a diamond in the rough but

I still wait for my mom to come and pick me up at Holly’s house

Ten years after they cashed it in to make a multi-level parking lot for a

seven-eleven and burger king and

I’ve got cryptographs, I’ve got all the phones tapped

It’s just proof enough it was indisputable

Love’s not good enough I want photographs

Something that will teach me my arithmetic at last.

Betty, get your kids out, I’m on the loose again

And getting more ridiculous the more I think I ought to get my mind out of the

gutter

(It's getting dangerous, Amanda, you’re old enough to be the fuck.)

My own private highway from the cradle to the grave

I save a bundle skipping middle age and saturdays

And I still wait for the cops to come where the station since burned down

Still expecting they’ll pick me up for all the sins I committed in the back of

the banged up pickup truck

I’ve got autographs, backstage passes and leather jacket back patches up the…

Ask me anything I want evidence

Single serving saccharine packets dripping black with lipstick kisses

I still wait for the bus to come where the high school got torn down

Still expecting to find true love among the skateboarders hanging out

The back of the bank in my home…

I’m no pederast, just out of interest

Thank you, but I’m capable of getting up and getting dressed

Love’s not good enough I want photographs

Something that will teach me coming

Time and time again

I think I’ll die my hair again

Oh wow

I’m sixteen

No, I’m ten

I’m seventeen

And the bank of Boston beauty queen