Confetti-Vonda Shepard

[00:00.00]written by Vonda Shepard [00:04.00]recorded by Vonda Shepard [00:08.00]appears on the albums "By 7:30" [00:12.00]and "Heart and Soul: New Songs From Ally McBeal" [00:16.00] [00:17.23]Skinny little brats [00:19.44]Walking down Avenue A [00:21.37]Dangling their cigarettes [00:23.45]Their Independence Day [00:25.46]Tears like filigrees [00:27.69]Wear them on their sleeves [00:29.71]Nobody's main squeeze [00:31.73]It's thirty-five degrees [01:09.37]So diaphanous, so ephemeral [01:13.48]And all those bad words [01:15.62]They never learned in school [01:17.63]Groovy like my mamma was [01:19.64]In her black turtle neck [01:21.72]She was so high strung [01:23.79]She was so low tech [01:25.58]Poetry and tattooed dreams [01:29.45]And fourteen caret nose rings [01:33.39]The children of elite [01:35.75]Are trying to be street saying [01:37.84]My words are like confetti [01:41.97]And you never pick them up [01:45.86]They fall onto the ground [01:49.13]I need someone to lift me up [01:54.38]My words are like confetti [01:58.47]And you never pick them up [02:02.33]They fall onto the ground [02:05.53]I need someone to lift me up [02:26.02][00:33.71]Poetry of ordinary life [02:30.18][00:38.48]Is what I live for [02:33.58][00:41.36]They just wanna be seen [02:35.72][00:43.73]They just wanna be heard...said [02:54.47][02:38.05][00:46.00]My words are like Confetti [02:58.61][02:41.90][00:50.14]And you never pick them up [03:02.47][02:45.91][00:53.92]They fall onto the ground [03:05.73][02:49.29][00:57.49]I need someone to lift me up