Last Dance Rodeo - MTV Unplugged
"This has never been played in public before. I actually was over at Don's house and um was just writing it and I thought it was the world's dumbest song and I threw it away. And he asked me about it yesterday, so it is out of the trash can. It's called "Last Dance Rodeo."
Your lungs fill up with concrete
Her voice is all you can hear
Red lips and a screwdriver
Wrapped around some mink-clad smear
And you know that she's a diamond
In this damn juke box hell
'Cause fools gold only fools fools in two-bit hotels
But she's cooler than all that
She's a real high-class cat
She's queen of the last dance rodeo
Chorus:
But under the gas lamp
The air is thick and velveteen
Your bones fills with hunger
Your heart fills with longing
You're no longer human you're an insatiable hole
You wanna bury your face forever in the navel of her soul
'Cause you know all you need is a heart to call home
All you need is a heart to call home that's all
Light bulbs and nylons
And plastic chandeliers
Objects are only objects
They can't feel when you're near
And tangerine lips
And lily-white breasts
These things are eternal
Inside them humanity rests
The skin is like a seashell
You listen to the soul
Like an old-time radio show
(Chorus)
But don't wander too far
My one constant star
Darkness exists, except where you are
My feet are filled with wandering
They follow your own
'Cause everywhere you are feels like home
So search all you miners
You hunters of dreams
Look in the alleyways
For what you know is not what it seems
And feign, all you maidens
But don't exist too long
Least look behind you
And see your own shadow is gone
Don't you know it's the last rodeo
You gotta find yourself a cowboy
Or someone to keep you warm when it's cold
'Cause under the gas lamp
The air is thick and velveteen
Your bones fill with hunger
Your heart fills with longing
You're no longer human
You're an insatiable hole
You wanna bury your face forever
In the navel of her soul
'Cause you know all you need is a heart to call home
All you need is a heart
All you need is a heart to call home that's all
