Gardenia - Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks

I kinda like the way you dot your J’s

With giant circles of naïveté

The kinda circles include everything

Don’t mean to damn you with the faintest praise

It’s just the symptom of the blah age

If he was living

He would be amazed

So you got some curb appeal

But can you cook a three course meal?

Or are you just a present waiting to be opened up

And parceled out again

Well you are a gardenia

Pressed in the campaign journal in the rucksack

Of an afrikaaner candidate for mild reform

It’s like we’re at a Ponzi scam-inar

There’s no escaping without a door prize

They’re operating at significant loss

And now the way that you watch your weight

Richard Avedon, Richard Avedon would

Richard Avedon would surely approve

So much for your curb appeal

And so much for the 3 course meals

'Cause I am not a present waiting to be opened up

And parceled out again, hey!

Well the torture of the van wyck expressway at 5pm

On Friday

Gives you some idea of how

Rejection makes me feel

Well you are a gardenia

You are a gardenia