Personal Lyrics - Artificial Fire - Eleni Mandell

My eyes are the color 

Of martini olives 

I always drink two 

Never three 

My hair is plain brown 

Once I was blond 

Yellow 

Not towheaded 

I like to drink coffee 

With one cube of sugar 

Always with cream 

And never with milk 

Only dark chocolate 

I really love summer 

I love to be warm 

I love to feel hopeful 

Under the stars 

In Audrey's backyard 

Wanting for someone 

To kiss me 

But someone would not 

And time's getting short 

The night's growing colder 

And I'm going home 

We danced and we danced 

In my old apartment 

When everyone left 

Someone slept on the couch 

I thought about love 

And how I love somebody else 

But is that enough? 

Lining up memories 

Each one a hair 

At the edge of the mirror 

I count and I stare 

I wish that the quiet would end 

With a telephone ring 

Could a friend turn 

Into a different thing? 

Laughing and laughing 

In my old apartment 

But that's not what lovers do 

They sigh and hope for the future