jordan baker - original song (@ the troubadour)

this is the first of three videos of a set I did at the Troubadour theater in Los Angeles on 4/23/19, during a benefit concert for AIDS/LifeCycle. eventually I will re-record and re-post them, but I wanted people to have access to them now :) lyrics this perfect plastic world ain’t good for the two of us now too many golden girls and boys who don’t know how to set things right give me your hand and I’ll give you mine I’ll find you in the crowd of parties cigarettes and wine I said I loved you you laughed and said “that’s sweet” you take the fast lane and I stand waiting in the street with ice in your eyes and smoke in your hair leaving me with nothing but a prayer oh what is there to lose, they say love comes for free we live in brilliant hues while all they ever see is green let them have their mansions and their fancy cars we’ve got something no gold coins can buy, and baby its all ours I said I loved you you laughed and said “that’s sweet” you take the fast lane and I stand waiting in the street with ice in your eyes and smoke in your hair leaving me with nothing but a prayer and oh, I know I’m quite a lucky guy but I can’t help but notice that silver glint stuck in your eye standing with the rich as they’re stomping on the poor what made me think that you were something more I said I loved you you laughed and said “that’s sweet” you take the fast lane and I stand waiting in the street with ice in your eyes and smoke in your hair leaving me with nothing but a prayer oh jordan baker you’ll be the death of me with such enchanting and incurable dishonesty my world is in shambles you’ve put me to the test but you’re just like the rest I hate to say it but you’re just like the rest oh jordan baker oh jordan baker my world is in shambles you’ve put me to the test but you’re just like the rest