And the sun sets on the auction But the auctionairre is still talking It seemed we had lots in common Before we started talking You said you'd come here looking for a heart And checked out the white elephant table Oh an elephant heart is a size too large But its beat is incredibly stable But its beat is incredibly stable And the sun sets on the auction And the thing she's spent lifetimes collecting Trickle home through cross-continental parkings After moments of appraising and i said to you It was a frowning copy of the mona lisa I bought a 5 dollar phone but i still couldn't reach you after many times Trying It was a problem with the wiring One twenty five one thirty five one forty five sold To shelvings and closets and cabinets are called One fifty five one sixty five on seventy five sold The selling of things you can pick up and hold When what i'd rather buy is the look on your face when you started bidding Until you had bid up all the money you'd saved And i laughed and you said i'm not kidding And i laughed and you said i'm not kidding And the sun sets on the auction It gets darker now fraction by fraction And i feel it's time to be going That something must move me to action And the auctioneer walks by with his mic in his hand and he says i can't do This much longer Oh my tongue's getting slower and i can't keep up with the depth and the Need of their hunger With the depth and the need of their hunger