Amsterdam Says

Cars by the water, water that makes this place stand still

Looks like they're thinking, thinking of jumping

I wake to the church bells playing those funky tunes, hey jude

Up in the tower, carillonneurs thumping

I'm trying to love you but you treat me like a hotel

You're coming and going, but you never say where

I'm trying to love you, but I see your heart is elsewhere

Amsterdam says goodnight

I'm dragging my suitcase through Chinatown and the Rokin Dam

The racket it's making banging a tourist

Now this is my home,

Though these roots will only ever be so long

It is what it is

I'm trying to love you but you treat me like a hotel

You're coming and going, but you never say where

I'm trying to love you, but I see your heart is elsewhere

Amsterdam says goodnight

I'm trying to love you but you treat me like a hotel

You're coming and going, but you never say where

I'm trying to love you, but I see your heart is elsewhere

Amsterdam says with steel in her voice

"I may seem rude to you but I prefer to hear it straight

And not have to wade through the bullshit between the lines

I know I'm beautiful, and I shouldn't work, but I do

And I can do better than you."