Love me like I am a movie star

Love me like I am a fool

Tragic and hopeless

Softly out of focus

And you be a movie star too

Love me like I am a Saturday

Lazy and warm by the old wishing pool

Dusty old sunbeams

And a handful of pennies

You whisper your wishes all to



Love me like I am a spirit

Here in the dark I appear in your room

You'll say you love me

But I'll never hear it

That ain't what they wrote on my tomb



So love me like I am the circus

When all of the lights have gone down

Spooky and faded

With clowns drunk and jaded

Who cuss when there's no one around



You'll love me like I am a Christmas tree

Sparkling and pretty, a real fantasy

Then you'll see through me

Won't know what to do with me

Then you'll be glad when I,

Won't be too sad when I,

So glad the day I leave