that's just my cowgirl alter-ego   riding on her bar room bull   dripping with the sweat of irony   as the cowboys whoop and drool   shooting glances at the mirror   to see if her scar is showing   she is truly going nowhere tonight      lecherous old lady wanna-be   much too young and shy   flailing her whole life   just thinking she can teach herself to fly   vehement romantic   frantic for forever right now   but forever's going nowhere tonight      sick of goading her self-loathing   she thinks, i think i'd better leave   'course whiskey makes me smarter   and i'm happy as can be   but please excuse me darlin   it's not you   it's me      and there's a dusty old dust storm on mars, they say   so tonight you can't see it too clear   still i stood in line to look through their telescope   looked like a distant ship light   as seen from a foggy pier   and i know that i was warned   still it was not what i hoped   yes i know that i was warned   still it was not what i hoped      i think i'm done gunnin to get closer   to some imagined bliss   i gotta knuckle down   and just be ok with this   i'm gonna knuckle down   just be ok with this   'course that star struck girl is already someone i miss      i swear some stuff you just see better from further away   and i think i communicate best now, the less i say   and i can't dance if the band can't play   and the vibe is going nowhere tonight      'cuz somewhere between Hollywood and its pretty happiness   and an anguish so infinite it's anybody's guess   is a place where people are all teachers   and this just one long class   and that ass will get you nowhere tonight      there's a dusty old dust storm on mars they say   so tonight you can't see it too clear   still i stood in line to look through their telescope   looked like a distant ship light   as seen from a foggy pier   and i know that i was warned   still it was not what i hoped   yeah i know that i was warned   still it was not what i hoped      i think i'm done gunnin to get closer   to some imagined bliss   i gotta knuckle down   just be ok with this   gotta knuckle down   just be ok with this      'course that star struck girl   is already someone i miss