So short are these lives Which walk among us in such a hurry I can't wait for these feet of mine To stay true to the rules of time How many men have died? How many mothers cried? How many heads have sighed? Where else but here can we rely? Born into a split country A split religion A split way of being I am scared for the children which I wish not to have Nor would know how to care for Unless in the end to lie I stare outside of myself But am not in myself I am somewhere else In another place Where the sun hits the grass catching it fast to fire Quick to a step for the best know no test Know no try The intense golden face is blinding when One stares at it for too long He has a plan for us but then saw that we had failed I am scared for us because we have only ourselves to get us outta' bail Longing for peace n' longing for a steady way to be I am traveling from my home for to roam Is to escape how I used to be Out with the soul that has been weighing me down Out with the skin that only makes me cringe Heavy heart attack that cracks Like work men's knuckles round' 2pm Or secretaries backs broken from 9 to 5 and gettin' fat Books are electric while the papers are burning down All I see is ruin yet no one is making a sound The money has all dried up like a puddle in the sun Buzzards are above my head Soaring n' looks like their having fun She crept neath' my heart and that is where she stayed Devil woman brown in her eyes I howled that night like a werewolf at the split egg white moon Sizzling sanitarium salute to the working class Angel haired hipsters crude oil the highest class Menacing mistaken get rich scheme maelstroms Strewn out and strung out in the newest hippest gear Tight laced tight faced knuckles white with fear I skip to the tune of the buffoon for my father laughed the way Grinning madly the car swerved as his hair curled Water wet and then the step as my bereft means nothing unless I trip Insurance fakers unpaid bakers feeding St. Jude with a mean old attitude I've closed my hands but my eyes are open I've lose the way to act like I'm afraid Death is no friend of mine but I guy that invited himself in Took all of your whiskey Your lemons And whatever else You didn't want to give Awaiting the by ways she says "give me another smile or I'll start to cry" Cranberry red her reds have turned you feet are now starting to burn Corn field yellow love with my cigarette burnt love A taint as I faint by her face not at all with a speck of grace A tad pole like life short lived but quick frantic Music and memories are nothing more then life's tactics As is love, a forgetful dream, cause' once you've awoken You never wished you'd have ever spoken But I'm broken, as of now, I'm looking for some glue To fix this ill perplexed Muddy Waters blues No, not there, don't rest there little bear I rest in the stars or the bars or my fellows boat stows Left for dead for they said rather instead That they meant the other harsher thing A bring of witched woes with toes walked but never written or stocked Forgotten stories with vanished' faces with ill traces of dead jealously Dirt blankets strapped crazy jackets when I leave today I won't ever be back at the bay I don't smile here and I don't grin to put it honestly my head only spins My sight does dim my chest does start to cave my fingers ***** the softest rose reddest bush Drink too much for nothing such and such as I am home as I am sittin' at home Stole my last heart I stole my last heart yes I have stolen my last God forsaken heart Lonesome no more n' worried not an ounce I'm looking around for some girl to give me my next bounce Fun where are you? Joy why are you not by my side? Where is that ****** ride I paid for while I was in full stride? Spoke to fast I clashed up against a wall of spoiled dirtied cash
I looked for snow but it had melted My life alone without a brick of shelter