Borneo Lyrics - Singles - The Fiery Furnaces

Borneo 

I was so bored with my old life 

I was so bored with decent odds 

My new roommate left her debit card 

Some sort of test for me. It's too hard 

Try to run an errand. Nervous sweat 

I rush back home and if i win i'll give her half 

I bet 

Online casino in the caymans 

Legal disclaimer writ for layman's 

I moved back into new canaan 

Babysit my sister's kids; its rainin' 

They fuss a bit while i put them to bed 

And grumpy, sitting on the couch, i get it in my head 

Take metro north. A silver candlestick 

To aquaduct on lirr. Pick 

I was so bored with my new life 

I felt like i knew all the odds 

I bet 'gainst myself i wouldn't wager 

My boyfriend's mother's mansion (nothing major) 

I stole the deed one night when she was drunk 

I drove onto the reservation with it in my trunk 

Sensors beep the threshold when i crossed it 

Thirty thousand marker soon i lost it 

Baltimore inner harbor (sports) zone 

Being courted. He's talking on his cell phone 

"let me tell you why i think i love her 

She knows you always take the bye week dome home team to cover." 

Go up to pimlico and i choose 

It's no fun if it's fine when you lose 

I was so tired with all the angles 

I was so bored with losin' easy 

So i gambled on going further a-field 

So i flew to sydney and then to bali and then to jakarta 

And called on my step-father's ex-business partner 

Major timmy sastrosatomo 

And he set me up as a silver smith/batik dabber 

In a house once owned by the princes of mataran. 

And he told me all his troubles 

We bribed a cfo at semen cibinong 

To get them to buy a 40% stake 

And we got a 5 million dollar order from nieman marcus, 

Which we filled about 10% 

But i did sell them my children's book 

Which i said was a south sumatran 

Folk tale--which went like this: 

I played cards for seven days straight, 

Was up $47 dollars late 

Evening as the sun went down i saw 

The ace of diamonds up his sleeve--black velvet on his paw. 

I fold, say goodbye politely. 

They bark, you don't get off that lightly 

I dreamed of a casino way up in the hills of borneo 

Where i lost with the giant flying squirrels and orangutans and great 

Morman butterflies all day long. 

'Til the bulldozers turned us into whole fruit fruit bar sticks and 

China markers