I’m reading T.S. Eliot for a class at Stanford extension but I’m gonna tell the teacher this is every bit as good, I saw Patricia Barbara trio on my 40th birthday at bird land in New York just a few years ago.
A Touch of Trash The perfect shade of lipstick A red that belies Insouciance Carefully weaved into a style Eye-liner drawn with an artisan’s hand Replication makes perfection She’s just a button short of trash Matching toes and fingers The peek-a-boo shoe Manipulation As subtle as the perfume A South Beach tan under a sun-streaked do Orchestration and precision The girl works harder than you Primitive inspiration Packaged in modern disguise Disposition Permitting a glimpse of the thigh Masculine resolve with a feminine plan Domination and submission She’s just a culture short of class Stylish deliberation The chattel of Calvin Klein Obsession Calculation of color and design Glamor defined by supply and demand Education and graduation She smells the gas then lights the match A moment of indecision Cool wind from the edge of the cliff Intoxication Feels like love when it looks like this If truth is the price for a superficial charm The night is laughing Watching us turn absolutely nothing into form words and music by Patricia Barber copyright Patsy Publishing BMI
I’m reading T.S. Eliot for a class at Stanford extension but I’m gonna tell the teacher this is every bit as good,
I saw Patricia Barbara trio on my 40th birthday at bird land in New York just a few years ago.
Oh! The intoxicating ooze of the human condition. Waves of love to you Patricia Barber.
A Touch of Trash
The perfect shade of lipstick
A red that belies
Insouciance
Carefully weaved into a style
Eye-liner drawn with an artisan’s hand
Replication makes perfection
She’s just a button short of trash
Matching toes and fingers
The peek-a-boo shoe
Manipulation
As subtle as the perfume
A South Beach tan under a sun-streaked do
Orchestration and precision
The girl works harder than you
Primitive inspiration
Packaged in modern disguise
Disposition
Permitting a glimpse of the thigh
Masculine resolve with a feminine plan
Domination and submission
She’s just a culture short of class
Stylish deliberation
The chattel of Calvin Klein
Obsession
Calculation of color and design
Glamor defined by supply and demand
Education and graduation
She smells the gas then lights the match
A moment of indecision
Cool wind from the edge of the cliff
Intoxication
Feels like love when it looks like this
If truth is the price for a superficial charm
The night is laughing
Watching us turn absolutely nothing into form
words and music by Patricia Barber
copyright Patsy Publishing BMI
Patty, thank you so much for posting the lyrics.... Would love to see you in New Orleans.
"just a culture short of class." awesome. Please, please, please, come back to Spokane, WA.
This is really my favorite song from Modern Cool, it just sold the whole album in four bars and i was gooooooone1
“Helt Texan” as they say.
fantastic!! when are you coming to berlin? or anywhere in near? :)
hm. word is that Berlin clubs don't pay. Very hard to get there. wish! xopb