Fig Tree (good girl) Lyrics

I moved to the city for a magazine

I met a man who's twice my age

He said he would help me if i could help him

He said he'd get me that front page

I told him i'm 19, he said "you're a baby

I graduated before you were alive"

When we got to his hotel

And took off his clothes, well

That's when he called me baby one more time

And then he called me baby all through the night

Well I was growing a fig tree in the city

And the figs were growing old

I was heavy and hungry

And hanging above me

Were the dreams that i'd been sold

I could live in the country with someone that loves me

Christmas, kids and cherry pie

Or i could stare at the branches

Insist i'm an artist

Stubbornly watching my figs die

But i'm a good girl

You take me home your dad says

"Buddy I like her"

I please and thank and say

"I'm happy with either"

Later I lie there

It's your world

Just say I'm a good girl

I wanna be empty

And I want you to forget that you ever met me

I wanna love a man before I turn twenty

I wanna be envied and emptied

Don't let me down gently

I wanna be buried

I wanna be sleeping there forever under bedsheets

I want you to cry into my coffin baby bless me

I wanna be

I wanna be

I wanna be

I wanna be crueler and kinder

And bigger and lighter

And louder and quiet

Not so undecided

And younger and wiser

And sober and higher

And humble and clever

Oh then i'll feel better

Oh crueler and kinder

And bigger and lighter

And louder and quiet

Not so undecided

And younger and wiser

And sober and higher

And humble and clever

Oh then i'll feel better

Oh then i'll feel better

Then i'll feel better

Oh humble and clever

Oh then i'll feel like I'm a good girl

You take me home your mum says

"Honey I like her"

I please and thank and say

"I'm happy with either"

Later I lie there

It's your world

Just say i'm a good girl

I wanna be empty

I want you to forget that you ever met me

I wanna love a man before I turn twenty

I wanna be envied and emptied

Don't let me down gently