She sat on the pavement <br />As I pulled in the drive <br />Wearing leopard skin velvet <br />And shiny black eyes <br />"She looks like a sleeper" <br />Said my wife at the time <br />She had curls like Delilah <br />And a smile like the sun <br />She held my poor corpse <br />Like she'd never be done <br />And the caption in my mind said <br />"This is the one" <br />But I'm strong and I'm disciplined <br />And I avoided her for years <br />'Till one night, as usual <br />With my heart full of tears <br />A hand touched my back <br />And she was standing right there <br />Then I felt the luxury of her <br />I felt the luxury of her <br />I felt the luxury of her <br />I felt the luxury <br />Whispering <br />Whispering <br /><br />Now I'll try hard to tell things just like they is <br />How my life was a desert before she came in <br />And wrecked it and ripped it and rubbed my nerves thin <br />How I liked to see her little feet pad around the house <br />The way she curled up quietly on the couch <br />I can still see her in my mind that way now <br />Aah I felt the luxury of her <br />I felt the luxury of her <br />I felt the luxury of her <br /><br />Well time went by quickly <br />And her confidence grew <br />And she wanted this and that <br />And she wanted those too <br />And she wouldn't shut up <br />And one day I just blew up <br />Now she's in the hospital <br />For the second time <br />Maybe she'll die <br />Maybe I'll cry <br />Therapists would say <br />"You're in denial" <br />But love became inconvenient <br />Love became a literal drag <br />Very bad for business <br />I'd be better off a fag <br />She's a model de sport <br />That I can't afford <br />'Cause I'm a practical American <br />From the Middle-West <br />And I can piss on a grave <br />While welcoming guests <br />If cold's what I am <br />I'm cold 'till the end <br />And I felt the luxury of her <br />I felt the luxury of her <br />Now I'm gonna continue walking <br />In the modern world <br />Which justifies every egotistical perversion <br />With scientific talk <br />And new ways to walk <br />But I'll remember the religion <br />She became to me <br />And the other person I could have been <br />So for now I'll say so long <br />I gotta go do wrong <br />I gotta go do wrong <br />I felt the luxury <br />I felt the luxury <br />I felt the luxury <br />Aah, Luxury
