Plastic Spoon

[TTTO “Paper Moon”, Seanan McGuire]

I like to cook, not eat down in the mall

I don’t want to eat in the dirty bars

But washing dishes is just not my goal

Wait I think I hear something – it’s her car

But that doesn’t mean that I’ll stop for good

If I can get away with it, I surely would

So tell my lover, it’s not ending soon,

Because I’m stirring tea using a plastic spoon

I don’t want to live by another’s rules

I’m not just gonna change, no matter how you sneer

Your boundaries seem to not much like my tools

But there ain’t no way that I’m stopping, dear

But just because she gets her way,

It doesn’t mean I won’t go back some day

So tell my lover, it’s not ending soon,

Because I have some rice and a plastic spoon

[Chorus]

Plastic spoons and paper bowls

Paper towels, rolls and rolls

Though the dinner looks like it’s in a mall

I won’t wash dishes, that’s my goal

I do the dishes when she says “goodbye”

I like paper towells, so I’ll take my chance

To dry the dishes with a good 2-ply

I do not really care if some will look askance

Though I’m somewhere off the beaten track,

I can guarantee that I won’t go back.

So tell my lover, it’s not ending soon…

I need to eat the soup with a plastic spoon

[Chorus]

I like to cook, not eat down in the mall

I don’t want to eat in the dirty bars

But washing dishes is just not my goal

Wait I think I hear something – it’s her car

But that doesn’t mean I’ll stop for good

If I could get away with it, I surely would

So tell my lover if she won’t come soon,

I will eat my soup with a plastic spoon,

I’ll consume the rice with a plastic spoon

She won’t see me using a plastic spoon

[Chorus]

Give me plastic spoons and paper bowls,

Paper towels, rolls and rolls