Stay New from Perfect Gentleman by Randy Kaplan

"Stay New" by Randy Kaplan

She brings me a lily in the morning.
She grows lilies in her garden.
Her walls are shades of red and gold.
She painted them herself like her ceramic bowls.
We drink double margaritas.
We play pool and I can't beat her.
She makes me listen to Tom Jones
while she talks Japanese on the telephone.

Stay new, stay new.
I don't want to get used to you,
I don't want to get used to you.

She tries to make her dog do a trick.
He only wants to run and lick her.
She rewards him anyway.
She can't resist.
Sometimes she's that way.
When she travels she comes back
and pins a flag into her map.
When she goes for a horseback ride
she leaves her birdcage hung up outside.

Stay new, stay new.
I don't want to get used to you.
I don't want to get used to you.

There are seconds that stand up
once the day has put its hands up.
I never caught them standing still
but in this they always will stay new.

I don't want to get used to you.

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