The Badlees

Mystery Girl

The Badlees


She probably still keeps herself inside herself 
Her head it ruled her heart 
With a tune I'll never hear
Summer, like self-portraits we were hit or miss 

Never the same hues twice 
The second layer's applied before 
The first one's were even rendered 

I guess her wall's still high and wide 
With the writing on the inside
Its meaning's reapplied to who's in fashion

CHORUS 

Time's a perfect crime for a mystery girl
The veil distorts the rhyme for a mystery girl 

Somewhere tonight a lonely shadow's 
Painting in the rain 
And most of what is captured will be in vain

You try to keep away the dogs of memory
The hungry and the restless ones 
Just come at different angles 

A cigarette at midnight in a slow, dark room
And they're scratchin' at your door 

The corner of your mind you pared 
To eloquence now rambles
And the rain sounds like a freight train 
Don't it always come the same 

When your hunger meets the pain of her resilience 

CHORUS

I guess her wall's still high and wide 
With the writing on the inside 
Its meaning's reapplied to who's in fashion

CHORUS