Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Gardenia lyrics

I kinda like the way you dot your "J"s With giant circles of naïveté The kind of circles include everything Don't mean to damn you with the faintest phrase It's just a symptom of the blithe age Walter Lippmann He would be amazed So you've got some curb appeal But can you cook a three course meal? Or are you just a present waiting to be opened up and parceled out again? Hey! You are a gardenia Pressed in the campaign journal in the rucksack of an Afrikaaner candidate for mild reform It's like we're at a Ponzi Scheme now There's no escaping Without a door prize They're operating at significant loss And now the way that you watch your weight Richard Avedon, Richard Avedon would Richard Avedon would surely approve So much for your curb appeal So much for your three course meals Cause I am not a present waiting to be opened up and parceled out again. Hey! Well the torture of the Van Wyck Expressway at 5pm on Friday gives you some idea of how rejection makes me feel Well you are a Gardenia You are a gardenia