Ezra Furman – Bad Man lyrics

[Verse 1:]
Beauty is a drug and it's coursing through my veins
I sit at home staring at your picture while my colleagues discuss capital gains

This love's just a cloud of cigarette smoke
Blows away on the wind but it stays in your throat
And the coughing is worse than ever these days

You walk into the room and I can't look up at you
All my concentrated efforts added up to one big thing I never meant to do

[PreChorus 1:]
My heart's been misfiled by the U.S. Postal Service
All these people with their expectations make me so nervous
And people like them could never be like people like you

[Chorus:]
You're too bright for me, I'm too dumb for you
In the night I see your face in the moon
You're the one who stands rock-solid in the shifting sands
And I'm a bad, bad man with a place in my heart for you

[Verse 2:]
I got to the place where secret things are sold
Thunder in the distance and it sounds like it's a million years old

I see your hair like a waterfall falling
Feel like a lone drunk in the parking lot bawling
And I don't know how this house got so incredibly cold

I can't explain it and nobody cares to know
Long-dead women call my name from deep inside my radio

I sit surrounded by my money and my glory
Numbly re-telling my little pointless life story
And the chandeliers winked as if to say, "We know"

[PreChorus 2:]
And I've confessed all my sins
I'm just the type who never ever wins
And I pray to God every weekend
I fit it in

And I've kept you waiting so long
But everything's gonna be different when I finish this song
And I know myself better than anyone
Who's to say I'm wrong?

[Chorus:]
You're too bright for me, I'm too dumb for you
In the night I see your face in the moon
You're the one who stands rock-solid in the shifting sands
And I'm a bad, bad man with a place in my heart for you