You sit there letting all the intensity
of the ages disappear in you
Like rain falls into water
You're the girl who takes the earth
as just one pearl among her other pearls
Oh, rich world's daughter
You watch a man throw his happiness
like a ball into the sky
Turn your head, see it fall,
hear him cry and give a sigh
And turn the record player louder
Oh, rich world's daughter
You sit there listening as a needle spins
You bark and beats out pop
Then you lie idling over mountains in a glider
A pasacadia moves electric
instruments,
hammer blues
You yawn and let your smile
stretch a little wider
A man puts his arms round you
and gives his need and hope
To an image of old beauty
You consent to act for a moment
then you yawn
Turn to something newer,
something brighter
Oh, Richwell's daughter
The time has gone
when all your years have moved us
Straight as a single bullet to your death
In one direction of your choosing
You've got the pictures
and the poems and the music
All preserved for you
Away is the only thing you're losing
Till you've paused at different men
Like automatic writing at a comma
New dresses for the winter
New lovers for the summer
Anyone
Love is just a fantasy
I've brought you
Oh, rich world daughter