Amanda Palmer - Nikola Tesla lyrics

[Verse 1] I met Nikola Tesla in a diner in New York He was eating cotton candy in the dark I sat down at his table and I asked him for a light When his eyes met mine I thought I felt a spark His glance was like an X-Ray and he looked me to the bone A touch from him my blood began to boil It was the 24th of March he had a really cute moustache And then he kissed me in an alley and I felt my insides coil [Chorus] Nikola Tesla I wish you'd invent a Current that could activate my heart Mysterious Gesture I do not expect you Come back from 1932 I'll always burn a light for you Sweetheart… [Verse 2] I'd dreamed of someone like you ever since I was a girl A mystery man inventing something new Just a guy with a transformer who could make me something warmer Who could open up my circuitry and make me someone new When Edison got angry my Nikola only grinned And explained that wireless power was the way He'd overturn the system there was no way to resist him And he kissed me one more time and told me he'd come back one day [Chorus] [Bridge] Edison's enemy Man who gave us AC He'll always be to me My little Serb Voice on the radio I'm looking high and low Here in the afterglow Send me a word… [Verse 3] So I waited while the valves inside my heart all dimmed and chilled He had secrets that he stored inside eight chests And he took his many mysteries and walked off into history And he left me with a fading sort of feeling in my breast I've been waiting here for decades, just a dusty afterthought I've been waiting for Nikola to come back It is painful and ironic not to mention electronic That he'd vanish in a crackle, into air and fade to black [Chorus]