Valerie Plame

Oh Valerie Plame, if that really is your name
I will shout the same to the world
Dear Valerie Plame, so they made a wreck of you
Well give me the rest of you and I.ll get the world

But you were just some silly girl
Taking in the sights of your empire.s colony
So I took you into my confidence
Without a thought of consequence
To my heart or to my mind

But Valerie Plame, if that really is your name
I will shout the same to the world

Oh Valerie Plame, if that really is your name
I will shout the same from on high
Dear Valerie Plame, I.ll look for that long exchange
Outside of the bureau de change in Shanghai

I was just some stupid boy on a bus
When your nom de guerre was code name Caroline
So my vespa became your chariot
From the green zone Marriott
To be etched upon my mind

But Valerie Plame, if that really is your name
I will shout the same to the world

And when they flashed your picture cross the screen
How my heart seemed to leap out of me
And they attached a list of your identities
But the one you.ll always be

Is Valerie Plame, if that really is your name
I will shout the same to the world
Dear Valerie Plame, if that really is your name
I will shout the same to the world

Hey Valerie Plame
Hey Valerie Plame
Hey Valerie Plame
Hey Valerie Plame

O New England

We.d come seven hours down
Took the blue line to see where we hopped out
And I was only joking, I was only joking
And I was only trying to get a laugh

You say this was the furthest that we had come
We traveled so far to watch it fall undone
And I had lost my token, you were looking bent and broken
Staring sideways with the rain coming down

But I am so enthralled
O New England
La da dum dum
O New England
La da dum dum

This here is the fable of a failed attempt
To find new life in a love in the seat of its origin
From Long to Coney Island, from Mid to West to Upper Highland
And all I got is this ill-gotten full color souvenir

The new millennium in New York
And all of New England
La da dum dum
O New England
La da dum dum

O New England
In the face of your empire
I think I.d rather just wait in the car
And return to the turnpike
Watching New England.s skyline sinking below
Sinking below

We.d come seven hours down
We.d come seven hours down, down
We.d come seven hours down
We.d come seven hours down, down