[Verse 1]
When they beat
On a broken guitar
And on the streets
They reek of tropical charms
The emba**y's lie in hideous shards
Where tourists snore and decay
When they dance in a reptile blaze
You wear a mask
An equatorial haze
Into the past
A colonial maze
Where there's no more confetti to throw
[Chorus]
You didn't know what to say to yourself
Love is a poverty you couldn't sell
Misery waits in vague hotels
To be evicted
[Verse 2]
You're out of luck
You're singing funeral songs
To the studs
They're anabolic and bronze
They seem to strut
In their millennial fogs
'Til they fall down and deflate
[Chorus]
You didn't know what to say to yourself
Love is a poverty you couldn't sell
Misery waits in vague hotels
To be evicted
[Verse 3]
Now you've had your fun
Under an air-conditioned sun
It's burned into your eyes
Leaves you plain and left behind
See them eyes and fall
Into the jaws of a pestilent love
[Chorus]
You didn't know what to say to yourself
Love is a poverty you couldn't sell
Misery waiting in vague hotels
To be a victim