Toy Boy
by Mika

Album: The Boy Who Knew Too Much (2009)
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  • I'm a wind-up toy in an up down world
    If you leave me all alone, I'll make a mess for sure
    I've a heart of gold in the smallest size
    Leave me in the dark, you'll never hear me cry

    More than an illustration
    Points of articulation
    Come to life on a brass spring
    Such a wonderful plaything

    It's a cruel cross that I have to bear
    If you come a little close I'm going to pull your hair
    More than just a toy in a patch-blue suit
    Hold me in your arms I'm just a boy like you

    But your mama thought there was somethin' wrong
    Didn't want you sleeping with a boy too long
    It's a serious thing in a grown-up world
    Maybe you'd be better with a Barbie girl

    You knew that I adored ya
    But you left me in Georgia
    Toys are not sentimental
    How could I be for rental?

    She's the meanest hag that has ever been
    Pulled out my insides with an old safety pin
    I'm the sorest sight, now I feel like trash
    Clothes are made of rags and they don't even match

    So she dressed me up as the man she loved
    Then threw me in a box when she had had enough
    Now the light of day I no longer see
    She stuck her voodoo pins where my eyes used to be

    Accidentally tragic
    Victim of her black magic
    Had a boy once who loved me
    Now he's so afraid of me

    On a long lost day when you're gray and dull
    You'll be there remembering your old toy boy
    When your oldest son wonderin' what to be
    Tell him the story of a boy like me Writer/s: JODI MARR, MICHAEL PENNIMAN
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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