i was wandering through the streets of the city   rambling through the avenues of time   when from nowhere my eyes fell onto a girl   and by chance her eyes fell onto mine   so i sat and acted all non-nonchalant   she smoked her lavender cigarette   reading the future that lay in my hands   my shadow played a bass clarinet   (where you going with this bret?)      we waltzed down a moonlight boulevard   just two silhouettes in the mist    (ah yes)   days went by and years went by   moments went by when we kissed   (when was this?)   she said your beard is woven of heartache   and we'll drink for the lonely tonight   and the moon is a horny old drunkard   (uh bret, could you please move over to your right?)   we drank dandelion wine and we reminisced    about the moment we first met that day   (i'm trying to watch tv)   then we reminisced about how we first reminisced   (oh yeah? sounds a bit gay)   she handed me a broken memory   a keepsake to forever most say?   a brief taste of love is as sweet as any   and with that she made her way   (oh yeah? what was her name?)      she said her name was a secret   then she said her name was cherie   (was her middle name cherie   so it's a secret cherie maybe?)   mm, maybe   (what'd she look like?)   she looked like a parisian river   (what dirty?)   she looked like a chocolate eclair   (that's rare)   her eyes were reflections of eyes   (oh nice)   and the rainbows danced in her hair   (aw yeah)   she reminded me of winter's morning   (what frigid?)   her perfume as eau de toilette   (what's that mean?)   she was comparable to cleopatra   (quite old)   she's like shakespeare's juliette   (what thirteen?)   the bohemians of soho did pirouettes   as we waltzed through the streets of manhattan   on rivers of ribbon and sailboats of song      there's a girl i described she's as real as the wind   it's true i saw her today   the other details are inventions   because i prefer her that way.