Heartbreakers movie - Polaroids lyrics

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Song by Shawn Colvin<br /><br>

Please no more therapy<br>

Mother take care of me<br>

Piece me together with a<br>

Needle and thread<br>

Wrap me in eiderdown<br>

Lace from your wedding gown<br>

Fold me and lay me down<br>

On your bed<br>

Or liken me to a shoe<br>

Blackened and spit-shined through<br>

Kicking back home to you<br>

Smiling back home<br>

Singing back home to you<br>

Laughing back home to you<br>

Dragging back home to you<br>

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I was so wary then<br>

The ugly American<br>

Thinner than oxygen<br>

Tough as a whore<br>

I said you can lie to me<br>

I own what's inside of me<br>

And nothing surprises me anymore<br>

But forests in Germany<br>

Kids in the Tuileries<br>

Broken-down fortresses<br>

In old Italy<br>

And claiming his victory<br>

Shrouded in mystery<br>

He went running away with me<br>

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Back in our home New York<br>

Walking these streets forlorn<br>

We all in our uniforms<br>

Black and black<br>

Doing that slouch and jive<br>

The artist must survive<br>

We've got all we need we cried<br>

And we don't look back<br>

Thinking we had it made<br>

Poised for the hit parade<br>

Knee deep in accolades<br>

The conceptual pair<br>

But ever the malcontent<br>

He left without incident<br>

Vanished into thin air<br>

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Now I am always amazed<br>

Words can fill up a page<br>

Pages fill up the days<br>

Between him and me<br>

But the vows that we never keep<br>

From bedrooms to business-speak<br>

Make me remember how cheap<br>

Words can be<br>

And the letters I wrote you of<br>

Were those of the desperate stuff<br>

Like begging for love in a suicide threat<br>

But I am too young to die<br>

Too old for a lullaby<br>

Too tired for life on the ledge<br>

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But I had a dream last night<br>

Of lovers who walked the plank<br>

Out on the edge of time<br>

Amidst ridicule<br>

They laughed as they rocked and reeled<br>

Over the mining fields<br>

Coming to rest on this ship of fools<br>

But he just took polaroids<br>

Of her smile in the light<br>

Of the dawn of the menacing sky<br>

And before they went overbaord<br>

She turned and held up a card<br>

And it said Valentine<br>

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