The Prince of the Hanging Gardens

I'm a lazy student In a circular library With a glass ceiling And a parquet floor After graduation I'm gonna go to the Amazon In search of a pigment That I want on my wall Hold me Scold me Extol me Console me Through the 90s And the 80s And the Tigris The Euphrates And after all that I've said I want you to know me I want you to throw me In the river So the clouds that follow my head Can finally rain down  On all your hydrangeas   I never had a doubt that you would come through I always adored you  I always ignored you Just to make you try harder  To you do what you do I had to be awful   Just to keep you from danger        Come stand at my window  With a view of suburbia As it marks out the borders Of my opulent grounds I'm rich but I'm troubled; There's a worm in my Bougainvillaea Why do you plague me When my ethics are sound? Hold me Scold me Extol me Console me Through the 90s And the 80s Through the waters Of Issey [Chorus] And after all I've said It's academia How could I be so faithful To the Queen of Media? Through the 90s And the 80s In the AD And the BC Through the Xanthus And the Yangtze And the Niger And the Ganges Hold me Fold me Control me Cajole me And release me  On the Lethe And the ichor through my body [Chorus] Babylon Babble on Etc