The Fiery Furnaces Borneo lyrics

I was so bored with my old life
I was so bored with decent odds

My new roommate left her debit card
Some sort of test for me, it's too hard
Try to run an errand. Nervous sweat

I rush back home and if I win, I'll give her half
(I bet)
Online casino in the Caymans
Legal disclaimer writ for layman's

I moved back into New Canaan
Babysit my sister's kids, it's rainin'
They fuss a bit while I put them to bed

And grumpy, sitting on the couch, I get it in my head
Take Metro North, a silver candlestick
To Aquaduct on LIRR, pick

I was so bored with my new life
I felt like I knew all the odds

I bet 'gainst myself I wouldn't wager
My boyfriend's mother's mansion
(Nothing major)

I stole the deed one night when she was drunk
I drove onto the reservation with it in my trunk
Sensors beep the threshold when I crossed it
Thirty thousand marker soon I lost it

Baltimore inner harbor
(Sports)
Zone being courted
He's talking on his cell phone
Let me tell you why I think I love her

She knows you always take
The bye week dome home team to cover
Go up to Pimlico and I choose

It's no fun if it's fine when you lose

I was so tired with all the angles
I was so bored with losin' easy

So I gambled on going further a field
So I flew to Sydney and then to Bali and then to Jakarta
And called on my step father's ex business partner
Major Timmy Sastrosatomo

And he set me up as a silver smith, batik dabber
In a house once owned by the Princes of Mataran
And he told me all his troubles

We bribed a CFO at Semen Cibinong
To get them to buy a 40% stake
And we got a 5 million dollar order from Nieman Marcus
Which we filled about 10%

But I did sell them my children's book
Which I said was a South Sumatran
Folk tale which went like this

I played cards for seven days straight
Was up $47 dollars late
Evening as the sun went down I saw

The ace of diamonds up his sleeve
Black velvet on his paw
I fold, say goodbye politely
They bark, you don't get off that lightly

I dreamed of a casino way up in the hills of Borneo
Where I lost with the giant flying squirrels
And orangutans and great morman butterflies all day long

'Til the bulldozers turned us into
Whole Fruit Fruit Bar sticks and china markers