[00:00.00]Shopping Bag Ladies - Dean Friedman
[00:08.75]Shopping bag ladies
[00:09.76]They live in the terminal waiting room
[00:13.56]Patiently whiling their hours away
[00:17.16]Desperately keeping their demons at bay
[00:20.44]Making up lies about times that were good
[00:27.79]Extolling the virtues of motherhood
[00:31.43]Staunchly defending their sanity
[00:35.14]Clutching one last shred of vanity
[00:41.29]Fixing a kerchief she wears on her head
[00:44.89]Covered in posies and lilacs
[00:46.80]In blues and in reds
[00:51.91]Don't pity me
[00:53.65]Don't pity me
[00:55.24]You beautiful bastard boy
[00:59.04]I'll be just how I am
[01:04.48]I'll be just how I am
[01:14.96]The shopping bag ladies
[01:16.08]It's not that well known
[01:17.24]But they're really in vogue
[01:19.69]The latest in fashions their tastes are so true
[01:23.68]Sweat sox and sneakers
[01:25.22]A sweater or two
[01:27.51]And safely behind the walls they have made
[01:34.49]Secure in their brown paper barricades
[01:38.64]Worldly possessions they'll not have to lose
[01:42.02]Lightweight emotional refuse
[01:48.48]They rant and they rave
[01:49.70]They're mad and they're crazy
[01:53.39]And thats how they stay free
[01:58.94]Don't pity me
[02:00.82]Don't pity me
[02:02.18]You beautiful bastard boy
[02:06.00]I'll be just how I am
[02:11.55]I'll be just how I am
[02:21.85]The shopping bag ladies
[02:22.84]It's hard to believe
[02:24.09]But once they were
[02:26.95]Children