written by Vonda Shepard recorded by Vonda Shepard appears on the albums "By 7:30" and "Heart and Soul: New Songs From Ally McBeal" Skinny little brats Walking down Avenue A Dangling their cigarettes Their Independence Day Tears like filigrees Wear them on their sleeves Nobody's main squeeze It's thirty-five degrees [00:33.71 [00:38.48 [00:41.36 [00:43.73 [02:38.05 [02:41.90 [02:45.91 [02:49.29 So diaphanous, so ephemeral And all those bad words They never learned in school Groovy like my mamma was In her black turtle neck She was so high strung She was so low tech Poetry and tattooed dreams And fourteen caret nose rings The children of elite Are trying to be street saying My words are like confetti And you never pick them up They fall onto the ground I need someone to lift me up My words are like confetti And you never pick them up They fall onto the ground I need someone to lift me up