Rock Candy Girl

On a street corner bench
On a lazy night out
After dancing away
All my troubles can't seem to stop
Riding by

Tossing things
Out at me

Like they're polluting the night
With unspoken demands
How many hands do I have?
How many chances left
Before the sun comes up

And the pool goes dry

This must be the way
You get to Miami
On a boxcar train bound
To be down and out
In two days

Nothing else to see
But the tourist traps
And the rats
At the bus station

This must be how
You become your super ego
Rock candy girl

With a bedspread
And a tea tray
And a pole dance
And a picket fence
And a chance to be

In an indie movie
Nobody's gonna see

Take your last pill
Take yourself out
Go dance in the light
From the street corner

See the cop cars go by
Stop and bother you
But they don't bother you
Do they?

You can play all night on the slides
If you want to
Go down into sand
Like the beach the man had
All kept to himself

Because he was a sheik
He was a hot shit, wasn't he?

He gave you your name
And he took a few things
Then he gave you your purse
And had you leave

What do you believe in now?
Huh?

Still believe you're rock 'n roll?
Still believe you kept your soul?
Still believe in bread and candy?

That must be you
That must be you in the light
Next to the bright promise
Of beyond
Of that beyond

Miss you, baby
Miss you a lot

What do you got now
Besides your nickname

Do you still remember who you used to be
Who you used to be with me

Little Miss
Rock Candy Girl