Action Figure from Ancient Ruins by Randy Kaplan

"Action Figure" by Randy Kaplan

She told me not to come around
I stayed far away and that let her down
She wants to be disobeyed
She wants to see flowers in her vase
But there's a hand on my back and it says where I go
A man like that has no control
She's gonna wind up wanting someone bigger
Than an action figure

I’m drawn to her, she’s drawn to scale
I tried to scale her wall
But all I ever did was fail
She wants a man of action who knows who he is
Who takes matters into his own hands
And takes her hands in his
But there's a hand on my back and it says where I go
A man like that has no control
She's gonna wind up wanting someone bigger
Than an action figure

I want to see the loosing of these knots
But I don't want to be something that I'm not
I finally get the picture
It's cold comfort to tell me that
The next time I’ll get it quicker
There's a hand on my back and it says where I go
A man like that has no control
She's gonna wind up wanting someone bigger
Than an action figure

• Blues
• blues
• country-blues
• ragtime
• story song
• Detroit