Novocaine #9

You keep your jewels inside the toilet
Cast your pearls before the swine
You could have done so much better
Than novocaine number nine

Hide behind your makeup
Defense in powder and lipstick
You love to love so much
That it even makes you sick

Tell me that white lie again
The one where you wanted this to be
Another mistaken notch on your belt
That hangs you in his family tree

Cold girl, pretty lips and smile
Were you always this way
So bleak and black and blue
And naked as your birthday

You can’t keep on like this
And I can’t keep on to you
I’d fix and destroy it all
But there’s nothing I can do