first song of 2009

Dear Mr. and/or Mrs. Sender
We're pleased to inform you that your application's been accepted
Starting from the time you get this letter
Your life will be one never-ending "hope you're feeling better"

You get your choice of an aesthetic, ah, ah, ah, ah
We need to chop your clock off, tick tock, tick tock, tick tock, tick tock
It may not be what you expected, ah, ah, ah, ah
There is no money back once you've been ripped off, ripped off, ripped off

Today's a very special day, ah
The boys'll murder for it, but what will the neighbors say
It leaves you feeling pretty hollow
It might be nice to look at, don't forget you're stuck with it
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow

You're big enough to stop pretending
You'll start to really show within a week or so
So don't go saying it's just come to your attention, ah, ah, ah, ah
You'll get more than you're asking for without the right protection

Today's a very special day, ah
And how you'd love to have a little thing with which to play
But love won't get you very far, oh
Today be still your beating heart, you'll have to keep on feeding it
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow

Boys will be boys, will be boys, will be boys, will be boys
Will be boys, will be girls with no warning, ah
Girls will be girls, will be guys, will be boys that don't cry over toys
That they use to beat girls they despise by the morning, oh
They always said that sex would change you
Change you, change you, change you

No second thoughts, the knife is nearing
You'll never hear the little pitter patter, pitter patter
Of this little feat of engineering, ah, ah, ah, ah
Of course I love you, and of course it's what's inside that matters

But I think the whole charade is ending, ah, ah, ah, ah
It seems to me to be the only way to keep from getting
Caught up in a long life of regretting
The doctors say that once you get a taste for it you'll keep on cutting

But while we happen to be here, ah
Why don't you whisper all those sweet forevers in my ear
Stiff upper lip in all this sorrow
Hurry up and stick it in, you never know when it will end

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
And tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow

Ah, They always said that sex would change you
Change you, change you, change you

[Sex Changes - The Dresden Dolls]

I just love it.