Set fire by a girl named desire Set fire by a girl named desire Somewhere between half cocked And full-blown insanity Stuck in grid lock Running on an unknown battery Full-grown profanity Why can’t it be that I could speak freely Freely speaking and this dreaming Couldn’t possibly have any meaning It’s just the same old shit And it keeps on repeating The purpose well it Seems to be self-defeating What she said to me As she was leaving And keeps on repeating Must save face now that I’m on the case And what a terrible waste with all this extra space And yet no place to put an entire empire That’s been set fire by a girl named desire But that’s the battle with one’s self Happiness or wealth Letting it ride on these cards I been dealt And who would ever, ever, ever Go and hand it to you for free Would you believe me, never When it ain’t even happened to me It wouldn’t the first time Tripping into, into the sublime And that’s fine Because I see it’s so easy How everything comes to you It amazes me how everybody wants to come get next to you Must save face now that I’m on the case And what a terrible waste with all this extra space And yet no place to put an entire empire That’s been set fire by a girl named desire Put it down Put it down, down, down Must save face now that I’m on the case And what a terrible waste with all this extra space And yet no place to put an entire empire That’s been set fire by a girl named desire Set fire by a girl named desire Set fire by a girl named desire