Come Close To Me (Not Too Close)

I'm all out of tickets I've no second chances I had too much wine and too many slow dances You're the picture of youth and I'm no spring chicken But here we are kissing the plot it does thicken Two midwesterners in the big city We're both of us living the dream what a pity That we can't just run away to Lisbon or Paris Would traveling overseas thrill us or scare us Why does my mind gallop twelve steps ahead of me Like is there another man that you want instead of me I'm playing at envy to fill up the space And distract from the things I don't want to face Come close to me Not too close I'm leaving here Tomorrow Your beauty it frightens me and also excites me I want to fall into you do lots of drugs with you Walk around Chinatown act like it's China Forget about everything but your green eyes And I'm not to be trusted in these grave matters In love I am mad as the maddest of hatters No this isn't love but it surely is something A nightmare in waiting or maybe a fun thing Come close to me Not too close I'm leaving here Tomorrow I worry I'm too used to living alone And when I am sad I don't pick up the phone I lick my wounds quiet like the lion I am If you've a better suggestion I don't give a damn Just let me be and let me see you Those times when you would most like to be you And I'll do the same masks firmly affixed We'll cut out everything between and betwixt Come close to me Not too close I'm leaving here Tomorrow California is calling me I have to answer I told her I'd be back in mid-September I don't have any pets no son no daughter But I have a garden my flowers need water I can't bear the winters my blood is too thin for them Living out west has made me a weaker man But also a healthy one I'm still an optimist I'm a songwriter and sometimes a solipsist I'm not a prophet I've no crystal ball Late summer is written but there's always the fall When you come out west a few leaves'll be falling We'll hit the beach and drive up Mulholland Who in the hell are you and how did we get here So quickly so rashly I dare say it's like we're Two rocket ships headed straight for the moon It can't be too healthy to be flying this soon Will Ally regret ever introducing us Or will she want credit for exec producing us What kind of movie will this one be Wait do I have a problem with reality I'm saying too much I hope you don't hate me But if I were you would I want to date me I can't answer that I've no perspective I'm half self-aware and far from objective Come close to me Not too close I'm leaving here Tomorrow