Alligator Suitcase

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Words & music © Jeff Mellin/Sweet Red Onion Publishing, BMI

You want me to open up
Split down the middle
like an alligator suitcase
Travel umbrella
Sample-sized toothpaste
for the crocodile teeth in your dissection tray

With a smile, you put it behind you
as far as it would go
but every porcelain tooth
that you lay in that wall of china's
just another brick
through my window

Gimme one good reason
why we live like we do
I gave you all I got but now
I'm givin' up
givin' up
givin' up on givin' into you
givin' up on givin' into you
givin' up on givin' in

You say it ain't so tough
No, no, no -- just take a bite. It's easy
But you know that greasy kid stuff's
too slippery to ever please me
Oh, you never please me

Gimme one good reason
why we live like we do
I gave you all I got but now
I'm givin' up
givin' up
givin' up on givin' into you
givin' up on givin' into you
givin' up on givin' in