Borneo

Written by：Matthew Friedberger

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 smithbatik dabber

In a house once owned by the princess of Mataran

And he told me all his troubles

We bribed a C F O at Semen Cibinong

To get them to buy a 40 percent stake

And we got a 5 million dollar order from Nieman Marcus

Which we filled about 10 percent

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