The Tin Man

The Tin Man’s sitting in the waiting room

With his brand new plastic heart

He don’t know where to start

Can’t really tell it’s a false alarm

Cuz he can’t feel much of anything

No he’s hollow to the core

And what he pours inside don’t satisfy

Just spills out on the floor

The doc comes in 20 minutes late

And he pours himself a drink

He says, “boy I aint no shrink

But you better watch what it is you think!”

“Cuz that thing that ticks inside of you

has got a mind of its own

it’ll drive you mad for what you never had

make you burn like black coal.”

And he came up strong with too much love

For her cold hands to hold

You better hold him down until the end of the show

And when they danced he broke her back

With the weight of the world

You better hold him down till the end of the show

In the park by the tenement

With his head laid in his hands

The Tin Man has got a plan

He’s met a girl and she makes him sad

But all he knows he knows from films

And he follows the actor’s lead

He’s jammed a rose between his teeth

And scrubbed his armor clean

Now he’s running up and down the avenue

His joints are creaking in the rain

He made a date but she never came

Of course, he has gone insane

And he shouts her name into the night

He startles the passers by

And on the road not far ahead

She hears and she takes a fright

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The police report had a note in it

And it made the captain blush

He thought it all was a little much

He didn’t they called that love

It seems the Tin Man screamed some profanities

From the top of a city bus

But when he caught a sight of his girl inside

He slipped and died for all of us