Down and out, broken like so many burned out automobiles Yet blazing infinite with immeasurable conviction & Rapturous with the weight of destiny Manic hysteria drove them off the overpass Hipster Valkyries raised them to avant-garde Valhalla And the eight o'clock news made messiahs of the lot Nirvana sold last weeks newspapers on the side of the highway Rolling with a sweet glimmer of a shark toothed smile On the horizon hunting for a high that can't ever be attained Holiest of Holies on a red lipped mountain top Or a supermarket bathroom stall scrawled with ****** madness The Lord's Prayer in black ink, brutal and simple There were misty eyed girls on the morning train to some great and unenviable elsewhere And by night the crows circled six times, once for each of the dead end dreams swallowed that day Candid and conscious, where the wild ones roam the city Burning the flags they wave and waving the flags they burn America's sweethearts on the run from the police Sawing at heartstrings like bows on a twisted violin From the mountains to the valleys the winds screamed senseless in their joy Liberation and the kiss of a lipstick Judas were on everyone's mind Martyrs a mile a minute, a dime a dozen Down the line the angels wept gloria mundi For the sinners sung with passion, the saints stoically mourned The revelers and the rioters and the street kids looking for a ride home The toxic kissed stars that set the city lights the shame And the masochists, blessed with a gypsy goddess' double edged kiss And broken down like so many burned out automobiles Yet blazing infinite with immeasurable conviction & Rapturous with the weight of destiny