Rosebud Matches

(Song lyrics; see also: Recording of a later version)

Gonna tell you one time, pretty baby
Just so you c’ain’t say you ain’t been told
Coming through your room just like Boo Radley
Bustin’ up your chifforobe

You keep coming back to me in pretty little flashes
I’m just Phillip’s kerosene and
You are a box a Rosebud matches

You shouldn’t oughta look that way at me when I’m
I’m being as good as I know how to be
I’m already being as good as I know how to be

Gonna show you one time pretty baby
Just so you c’ain’t say you ain’t been showed
There’s two of us here in the morning air
But there’s just one shadow
Falling ‘cross your floor

You keep coming back to me in pretty little flashes
I’m just Phillip’s kerosene and
You are a box a Rosebud matches

You shouldn’t oughta look that way at me when I’m
I’m being as good as I know how to be
I’m already being as good as I know how to be

Hey alright, hey alright, hey-ey-ey all wrong

You keep coming back to me in pretty little flashes
I’m just Phillip’s kerosene and
You are a box a Rosebud matches

Posted on Instagram October 2,2017; Appeared on 1998 demo “Southern Amusement”; Written around 1994/1995