I fall
And you kick me when I'm down
And I fall and I fall
And just when I stand back up again
You push me down
With words of love and acts of kindness
Why are you messing with my mind?
In love with you so long, so fast
And I thought it'd finally passed
But when I'm gone and home alone
You hit me up, you call my phone
"Where are you?" you ask, with real concern
Don't make me fall in love again
His face is a stove, my hands will burn
I don't want to fall in love, to take the bait
You smile and laugh and whisper softly in my ear
*It's too late

Maybe love's just a song
That isn't in my key
Maybe love is wrong
And the world has lied to me
Maybe love's a privilege
And I've been misbehaving
Maybe love is money
I'm good at spending, not saving

If you could see this
I'd like to see your face
If you could read this
I'd let you plead your case
If you could see me
Perhaps you'd change your tune
If you could see me
I might see you soon

The papers keep piling up
And the higher they get
The less I care
The more I swear
The more I'd rather be anywhere
But here
And you used to call me "my dear"
When we were alone
Now I'm always alone
Even when you are here
And I don't want to hear
All things that I'm not
But she thinks that I am
I'm not worthy, I'm Man
And I'm so thirsty for God
But I keep drinking sand
I am starving for love
But I throw it away
When it asks me to stay
And I'd pray
But I'm scared that you won't hear me plea
Please God, listen to me
I don't know what to be
What to do with myself
Can I talk to you God?
Cause I'm not feeling well
My skin hurts
In the places I chose
On my wrists
And my nose
Which keeps filling with blood
My head feels like a flood
Cause it won't ever stop
Stop me now
Because I am the unworthy Man
And I'm so thirty for God
Yet I keep drinking sand

I went looking for God
but I found you instead.
Bad luck or destiny,
you decide.

Buried in the muck,
the soot of the city,
sorrow for an appetite,
devil on your left shoulder,
angel on your right.

You, with your thorny rhythms
and tragic, midnight melodies.

My heart never tried
to commit suicide before.

All I can say is
Please, Daddy
I'm nearly old enough
To know
You must know that this
Would make me very happy
So please Daddy
Let me go
Mommy's known him most his life
She knows that he would do me well
And I can tell
That it will show
So please Daddy
Let me go
It's just one night
One hockey game
It doesn't mean that nothing will ever be the same


Now that, I think you know
So please Daddy
**Let me go

Quite unexpectedly, as Vasserot
The armless ambidextrian was lighting
A match between his great and second toe,
And Ralph the lion was engaged in biting
The neck of Madame Sossman while the drum
Pointed, and Teeny was about to cough
In waltz-time swinging Jocko by the thumb—
Quite unexpectedly the top blew off:

And there, there overhead, there, there hung over
Those thousands of white faces, those dazed eyes,
There in the starless dark the poise, the hover,
There with vast wings across the cancelled skies,
There in the sudden blackness the black pall
Of nothing, nothing, nothing—nothing at all.