"truce"  (The Dresden Dolls)

you can have washington; i'll take new jersey.
you can have london, but i want new york city.

i should get providence, i've got a job now
los angeles - obvious - that's where you belong now

you can have africa, asia, australia
as long as you keep your hands off café pamplona

we can split germany right down the middle
you'd hate it there anyway
take berlin, and we'll call it even

(1:30)
you can have all of the carry-on baggage
i'll trade the saskia jokes for the alphabet language
and special occasions we'll split between parents
who forced us to hate them on alternating weekends;

you call it over
and i call you psycho. 
significant other?
just say we were lovers 
and we'll call it even
we'll call it even

(2:40)
i am the ground-zero ex-friend you've ordered
disguised as a hero to get past your borders
i know when i'm wanted, i'll leave if you ask me to
mind my own business and speak when i'm spoken to 
i am the tower around which you orbited
i am not proud i am just taking orders
i fall to the ground within hours of impact
i hit back when hit, and attack when attacked

(3:30)
you get route two between concord and lexington
i want mass ave from the square to my apartment

and if we should meet through some misunderstanding,
i'll be very sweet, very patient, and forgiving.
(now get off my side of the state)

and if we should see one another in passing
despite these techniques there is sometimes no avoiding
(there must be some kind of mistake)

we'll raise high the white flags and bow heads and shake hands, 
declaring the land we're on unamerican.
we'll call it... even.
we'll call it... even.

(5:08)
i am the tower around which you orbited
i am not proud i am just taking orders
i fall to the ground within hours of impact
i hit back when hit and attack when attacked

and tell i'm an accident waiting to happen
i'm laughing like mad as you strangle the character
my place may be taken, but make no mistake,
from a little black box I can say without shame 
that you've lost
that you've lost
do you know what you've lost

(6:05)
so take whatever you like i'll strike like the States on fire
you won't sleep very tight,
no hiding no safe cover;
make your bed and now lie like you always do
you can fake it for the papers,
but i'm on to you, i'm on to you.

take whatever you like i'll strike like the States on fire
you won't sleep very tight,
no hiding no safe cover;
make your bed and now lie like you always do.
you can fake it for the papers,
but i'm on to you, i'm on to you.
i'm on to you, i'm on to you.

(8:29 epilogue)
amanda... you're telling me a fairy tale