Superstar! Lyrics

Bachelors leave the chapel, huddled like they were born there

The groom belies grinning for photos, his nose bleeds into his boutonnière

The best man is drunk and elsewhere

I'm just happy you're happy

The hairdresser took several shortcuts, their bangs are short and erratic

Mendaciously the bride is sharp as sawdust but only in pictures is she ecstatic

Contours define the lines of a

Superstar!

Lighting embellishes expression and chapters in memoirs

Though none of it may be true

It's best resembling you, nostalgic and misconstrued

Memories are fragments after enough hours and booze

No matter the magnitude

Reassembled in conglomeration

Indistinct despite dissimilitude

I'm just happy you're happy

Party hats and birthday candles, the ashtray edges of a cul-de-sac

The chimney sweep checks for bed bugs like weddings rings in a champagne glass

Projectors confine the signs of a

Superstar!

Each expression and squint, subject to the scrutiny of cameras

Though none of it may be true

Explicit and imbued with technicolor and perfume

Memories are fragments after enough hours and booze

Monumental or subdued

Devils reside among clergy and carnations

Distinguishable by the polish on their shoes

I'm just happy you're happy

Brimstone and fools, the cock and the bull

God I need some serotonin, the sidewalk is growing weeds

In between the cracks and silos or the tracks threaded like prayer beads

Cadence of footsteps and whispers, pirouettes on dead leaves

Cufflinks and chimes, adjustments of the mime

Ear plugs and slippers soften like stiff drinks in summertime

Muffle the sounds of tap dancing or records skipping and scratched

Warped from the attic heater, humming like a Cadillac

I won't be long, and I won't belong to any topiaries

Flirtatious missionaries weave flags

I'm just happy you're happy