I'll grab the year by its ******* nostrils
drag it through a mirth-soaked Autumn.
I smell another couch-bound month,
so I'm churching up November nights
with chips on sour luck
"Who're you to judge?"
Well, I'm the ****** with the gavel
in my hand
and a burning, short fuse in each eye
And I'm sentencing this lengthy Fall
to muster up some wherewithal;
to keep me off the ******* pile of scraps
'til next Spring.
Make this the Year of the Dog
if you must
but understand I'm not a lamb
or a lion or an ox;
I'm a windy, cloudy Saturday,--
a kid from out Wyoming way--
The only guess I've got is
keeping still means getting lost
I'll grab the year by its ******* collar
shake until it bleeds the future.
Drag it out--I'm gonna drag it out
toss it on the pile of burning years
to light my face.
Keeping still means getting lost.
Burning years'll light my way.
Oct 14, 2014
Oct 14, 2014 at 4:41 AM UTC
I'll grab the year by its ******* nostrils
drag it through a mirth-soaked Autumn.
I smell another couch-bound month,
so I'm churching up November nights
with chips on sour luck
"Who're you to judge?"
Well, I'm the ****** with the gavel
in my hand
and a burning, short fuse in each eye
And I'm sentencing this lengthy Fall
to muster up some wherewithal;
to keep me off the ******* pile of scraps
'til next Spring.
Make this the Year of the Dog
if you must
but understand I'm not a lamb
or a lion or an ox;
I'm a windy, cloudy Saturday,--
a kid from out Wyoming way--
The only guess I've got is
keeping still means getting lost
I'll grab the year by its ******* collar
shake until it bleeds the future.
Drag it out--I'm gonna drag it out
toss it on the pile of burning years
to light my face.
Keeping still means getting lost.
Burning years'll light my way.
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