Well I woke in mid-afternoon cause that's when it all hurts the mostÂ
I dream I never know anyone at the party and I'm always the hostÂ
If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghostsÂ
You can never escape, you can only move south down the coastÂ
well, I am an idiot walking a tightrope of fortune and fameÂ
I am an acrobat swinging trapezes through circles of flameÂ
If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shameÂ
and though I'll never forget your face,Â
sometimes i can't remember my nameÂ
Hey Mrs. Potter don't cryÂ
Hey Mrs. Potter I know why butÂ
Hey Mrs. Potter won't you talk to meÂ
Well, there's a piece of Maria in every song that I singÂ
And the price of a memory is the memory of the sorrow it bringsÂ
And there is always one last light to turn out and one last bell to ringÂ
And the last one out of the circus has to lock up everythingÂ
Or the elephants will get out and forget to remember what you saidÂ
And the ghosts of the tilt-a-whirl will linger inside your headÂ
And the ferris wheel junkies will spin there forever insteadÂ
When I see you a blanket of stars covers me in my bedÂ
Hey Mrs. Potter don't goÂ
Hey Mrs. Potter I don't know butÂ
Hey Mrs. Potter won't you talk to meÂ
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sleepÂ
And the lovesick rejections that accompany the company I keepÂ
All the razor perceptions that cut just a little too deepÂ
Hey I can bleed as well as anyone, but I need someone to help me sleepÂ
So I throw my hand into the air and it swims in the beamsÂ
It's just a brief interruption of the swirling dust sparkle jet streamÂ
Well, I know I don't know you and you're probably not what you seemÂ
But I'd sure like to find outÂ
So why don't you climb down off that movie screenÂ
Hey Mrs. Potter don't turnÂ
Hey Mrs. Potter I burn for youÂ
Hey Mrs. Potter won't you talk to meÂ
When the last king of Hollywood shatters his glass on the floorÂ
and orders anotherÂ
Well, I wonder what he did that forÂ
That's when I know that I have to get out cause I have been there beforeÂ
So I gave up my seat at the bar and I head for the doorÂ
We drove out to the desert just to lie down beneath this bowl of starsÂ
We stand up in the palace like it's the last of the great pioneer town barsÂ
We shout out these songs against the clang of electric guitarsÂ
You can see a million miles tonightÂ
But you can't get very farÂ
Oh, you can see a million miles tonightÂ
But you can't get very farÂ
Hey Mrs. Potter I won't touchÂ
Hey Mrs. Potter it's not much butÂ
Hey Mrs. Potter won't you talk to meÂ