Pictures of naked women line the stores along the street.
They don’t make me feel inadequate, they make me feel more complete.
Sometimes I want to talk to them so they could prove me wrong.
Other times I pretty sure that we just wouldn’t get along.

They're working on cars. They’re hanging out at beaches and bars.
This one’s named Diana. She’s got a hammer and some plush toy handcuffs.
And maybe something’s wrong with me but she doesn’t make me want to buy hardware.
She makes me want to sigh. She makes me want to roll my tired eyes
and blame someone for something bigger than putting up this stupid picture
cause it’s exhausting to insist on her underlying humanity.

Pictures of naked women in every trashy magazine.
When I was young they made me ugly. Now they just make it hard to read.
And looking in her coked out eyes I wonder what she sees.
Perhaps she’s proud of her portfolio, accomplished, and at ease.

I bet she never farts. There’s a bottle of booze over her private parts.
And I don’t drink what she’s selling, but I know the brand now so I guess it’s working.
And If I saw it at a party I would think of her and laugh.
It’s hard not to feel superior and then I feel like a fool in the reflecting pool;
so shallow and so heavy handed-- a puritanical fun bandit.
How did I become so damned and hopelessly self-aware?

I am a naked woman about a quarter of the time.
When I’m sleeping. When I’m loving. When the opportunity arises.
To say I never use the way I look would be a lie,
but I’m uncomfortable with sex appeal; it makes me feel frivolous and expendable.

I kind of don’t believe it, that a straight man would fall for a dumb trick like that.
And I’m not convinced of my body’s power, but I feel his eyes on me and it makes me sour.
I never wanted this I never asked I never asked for any of this

Pictures of naked women line the stores along the street.
They don’t make me feel inadequate the make me feel more complete.
And I’m sorry but I wrote you off as shallow, I concede
It’s a sticky kind of vanity you make me feel more complete.