[Verse 1]
Your lungs fill up with concrete
Her voice is all you can hear
Red lips and a screwdriver
Wrapped around some mink-clad queer
And you know that she's no diamond
In this damn jukebox hell
'Cause only fools gold fools fools
In two-bit hotels
But she's cooler than all that
A real high-class cat
Queen of the last dance rodeo

[Chorus]
But under the gas lamp
The air is thick and velveteen
Your bones fill with hunger
Your heart fills with longing
You're no longer human
You're an insatiable hole
You wanna bury your face forever
In the navel of her soul
'Cause you know
All you need is a heart to call home
All you need is a heart to call home
That's all
[Verse 2]
Lightbulbs and nylons
And plastic chandeliers
Objects are only objects
They can't feel when you're near
But tangerine lips and lily-white breasts
These things are eternal
Inside them humanity rests
Her skin is like a seashell
You listen to her soul
Like an old-time radio show

[Chorus]
'Cause under the gas lamp
The air is thick and velveteen
Your bones fill with hunger
Your heart fills with longing
You're no longer human
You're an insatiable hole
You wanna bury your face forever
In the navel of her soul
'Cause you know
All you need is a heart to call home
All you need is a heart to call home
That's all
[Bridge]
Don't wander too far
My one constant star
Darkness exists, except where you are
My feet are filled with wandering
They follow your own
'Cause everywhere you are feels like home

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 3]
So search all you miners
You hunters of dreams
Look in the alleyways
For what you know is not what it seems
And feign, all you maidens
But don't resist too long
Lest you look behind you
And see your own shadow is gone
Don't you know? It's the last rodeo
You gotta find yourself a cowboy
Or someone to keep you warm when it's cold

[Chorus]
'Cause under the gas lamp
The air is thick and velveteen
Your bones fill with hunger
Your heart with longing
You're no longer human
You're an insatiable hole
You wanna bury your face forever
In the navel of her soul
'Cause you know
All you need is a heart (To call home)
(All you need is a heart)
To call home
All you need is a heart
To call home (Yeah, yeah)
All you need is a heart
(All you need is, all you need is, all you need is)
To call home
Is a heart, that's all
That's all