Tootsie Roll from Perfect Gentleman by Randy Kaplan

"Tootsie Roll" by Randy Kaplan

Well, there's just no cure for this addiction of mine.
I need so much more today than I did when I was nine.
The vanilla-flavored ones are all wrapped up in blue.
If you eat three at a time it's like your mouth is full of glue.
But the brown ones are the best and I love to eat 'em down.
Sometimes I'll have nine or ten when there's no one else around.

Oh, Tootsie Roll, we go way way back.
I don't know what you got inside but it must be what I lack.

I have a love that shudders. I have a love that shines.
But I don't have much more today than I did when you were mine.
The mornings in your room, what we used to do.
Those were good old times when we were making times that were new.
But the evenings were the best and I loved to take you down.
I loved to hold you close to me and make you make a sound like

Oh, Tootsie Roll, we go way back.
I don't know what you got inside but it must be what I lack.
Oh, Tootsie Roll, we go way back.
I don't know what you got inside but it must be what I lack.
I don't know what you got inside but it must be what I lack.

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