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You can go out, dancing
And I'll write about you, dancing without you
And I'll shed a tear between my legs
When you were here, I missed you
Now that you're away, I'm out there without you
And I shed a tear between my legs
Though we live in the same city,
You live in another state far away from me and all of my unfaded charms
But when the rocket ships all fall
And the bridges, they all buckle
And everybody's packing up their station wagons
There's a number you can call, like a breast that you can suckle
And we quietly will exit as it all is happening
Again, I'm afraid of one thing
Will I walk away from love knowing nothing, wearing my heart between my legs?
But when I know you're naked, lying on the bed while I'm at the piano
All I can say is I can't fake it
When the rocket ships all fall
And the bridges, they all buckle
And everybody's packing up their station wagons
There's a number you can call, like a breast that you can suckle
And we quietly will exit as it all is happening again
'Cause there's a river running underground
Underneath the town towards the sea
That only I know all about
On which from this city we can flee
On which from this city we can flee |
- the Phantom of the Opera theme is heard at the end of this song
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- Welsh actress Siān Phillips provides spoken word backing vocals at the end of this track
- "That song I wrote about a boy I was infatuated with named Tommy Hottpants, who still cavorts about Manhattan as if he owns the place, which every young person should do. It's like a fantasy about being able to save your object of desire when the apocalypse comes, and bring him to some sort of hidden paradise. It's all very imaginary!" - Bay Area Reporter, Published Published 05/10/2007 by Gregg Shapiro
- "This is the 'to get laid' song. I wrote it about a stripper, who's a friend of mine. He's sort of a downtown fixture at this point. His name is Tommy Hottpants, and I wasn't in love with him, but I was just kind of infatuated with him at a certain point. And I wrote this song about him because I would only see him once in a blue moon and I pined for his young, nubile body. The way that I wrote this song is that 'I can spend a lot of time away from you, but I'm still out there with you anyway because I'm thinking about you all the time, and I shed a tear between my legs... Though we're not together physically, when the end of the world comes (which is soon in New York in these apocalyptic times), you can always come running back to me, and I will save you from disaster, because I have a little passage way leading from my apartment out to the sea.'" - Release the Stars Commentary (UK Bonus DVD)
- This song was first performed during the "Odd Man Out Tour" in Summer 2005
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