How Do I Work

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I chopped off that braid of hair My neighbor hooted and people stared So I tried to look haughty, more occupied I lost the weight, I go for walks Sometimes I'm out a hundred blocks And my clothes are like caverns in which I hide When I return the doorman's there Oh, if only he knew The service Not of his open door But of his open smile to me CHORUS: How do I work? How am I put together? I still do not know Though it's late in the hour Oh I have some ways to go How can I grow without just growing old? I remember me as a child I often shrugged and seldom smiled In the mirror I asked, "Is this all I am?" In class the teacher dressed in tweed Said to fly around the room like milkweed And she told me I twirled like Martha Graham At the time I just turned away But if only she knew How I danced in my room that night When everyone had gone to sleep CHORUS So now into my life of computer mail And a single mark hanging on its nail Someone entered where no one has even tried Oh, there has been so much for me Out of all the greatness in this small city I believe I have beauty coiled up inside Sometimes I think that I can be tapped Just like a barrel Oh, I'm crazy, yeah I laugh at myself Another lonely kid grown up How can it work? How can we live together? I still do not know Though it's late in the hour Oh I have some ways to go Help me grow I'm just growing old