Laura
  Calls me
  In the middle of the night
  Passes on her
  Painful information
    Then these careless fingers
  They get caught in her vice
  Til they're bleeding
  On my coffee table
  Living alone isn't all that
  It's cracked up to be
    I'm on her side
  Why does she push the poison on me?
  Laura
  Has a very hard time
  All her life has
  Been one long disaster
    Then she tells me
  She suddenly believes she's seen
  A very good sign
  She'll be taking
  Some aggressive action
    I fight her wars
  While she's slamming her doors
  In my face
  Failure to break
  Was the only mistake
  That she made
    Here I am
  feeling like a fucking fool
  Do I react the way exactly
  She intends me to?
    Everytime I think I'm off the hook
  She makes me lose my cool
  I'm her machine
  And she can punch all the keys
  She can push any button I was programmed through
    Laura
  Calls me
  When she needs a good fix
  All her questions
  Will get sympathetic answers
    I should
  Be so
  Immunized
  To all of her tricks
  She's surviving
  On her second chances
    Sometimes I feel like this
  Godfather deal is all wrong
  How can she hold an umbilical chord
  For so long?
    I've done everything I can
  What else am I supposed to do
  I'm her machine
  And she can punch all the keys
  She can push any button I was programmed through
    Laura
  Loves me
  Even if I don't care
  That's my problem
  That's her sacred absolution
    If she had to
  She would put herself in my chair
  Even though I
  Faced electrocution
  She always says
  I'm the best friend that
  She's ever had
    How do you
  Hang up on someone
  Who needs you that bad?