polaroid

Soft Cell

New York City, 1981
I was lost in the junkie jungle
I called in to the Factory on Union Square
For a Warhol introduction

He saw me, and he said Hi
And I said Hi , and he said Gee
And he asked me, and I asked he
A polaroid of me and he?

Saw right through him, and he through me
Transparent men and mannequin
Great, I said, and he said, Gee
And that was it, and that was we

He saw me, and he said Hi
And I said Hi , and he said Gee
And he asked me, and I asked he
A polaroid of me and he?

I ve got this, erm, polaroid picture
and it just takes the face of the person
I-I haven t learned how to do the body yet
but they usually
always come out great

But in my head, it all played out
In a silver-foiled room at the Factory
Joe Dallesandro, Candy Darling
Jackie Curtis and Pope Ondine
A crazy, groovy Warhol scene
The Velvets playing Heroin
And Nico danced in oil-wheel lights
And Lou Reed had me in his sights

He saw me, and he said Hi
And I said Hi , and he said Gee
And he asked me, and I asked he
A polaroid of me and he?

I m the new girl in town, and I meet Rita Hayworth
Jane Fonda, Lana Turner, Kim Novak, all the glamour girls
And I interviewed them and kept them apart
and then at the end of
Oh, just? well, actually, just, I try to make
try to make people look good. That s what I did

New York City, 1981
I was lost in the junkie jungle
Called to the Factory on Union Square
For a Warhol introduction
And now, if we exist at all
A polaroid stuck on my wall
Feel like my dreams
Were really just nothing at all

He saw me, and he said Hi
And I said Hi , and he said Gee
And he asked me, and I asked he
A polaroid in he and me?

This picture just takes a? picture of, um?
just the face, and that seems to, err
I don t know, there s something about the camera
that makes it look, err, make it just, um?
just right. And it?
it takes their head shots
it s like getting a passport picture
I, uh, y know, take a half a picture from a picture
and another picture and from

(A Polaroid, polaroid, polaroid, polaroid...)

I m the new girl in town, and I meet Rita Hayworth
Jane Fonda, Lana Turner, Kim Novak, all the glamour girls
It just takes the face of the person, I?
I haven t learned how to do the body yet
I-I ve done it, but not really
They usually always come out great