Finishing The Hat

Mademoiselles
 You end me, pal
 Second bottle
 Ah, she looks for me
 Bonnet flapping
 Yapping
 Ruff
 Chicken
 Pastry
 Yes, she looks for me good
 Let her look for me
 To tell me why she left me
 As I always knew she would
 I had thought she understood
 They have never understood
 And no reason that they should
 But if anybody could, finishing the hat
 How you have to finish the hat
 How you watch the rest of the world
 From a window while you finish the hat
 Mapping out a sky
 What you feel like, planning a sky
 What you feel when voices that come
 Through the window
 Go
 Until they distance and die
 Until there's nothing but sky
 And how you're always turning back too late
 From the grass or the stick
 Or the dog or the light
 How the kind of woman willing to wait's
 Not the kind that you want to find waiting
 To return you to the night
 Dizzy from the height
 Coming from the hat, studying the hat
 Entering the world of the hat
 Reaching through the world of the hat
 Like a window
 Back to this one from that
 Studying a face
 Stepping back to look at a face
 Leaves a little space in the way like a window
 But to see, it's the only way to see
 And when the woman that you wanted goes
 You can say to yourself, "Well, I give what I give"
 But the women who won't wait for you knows
 That, however you live
 There's a part of you always standing by
 Mapping out the sky, finishing a hat
 Starting on a hat, finishing a hat
 Look, I made a hat
 Where there never was a hat