I'm a forgone conclusion
    and an empty promise.
    My words fail to inspire.
    My loves are always lost.
    Trouble always finds me.
    Read between the lines and
    find the real me with you
    in my heart on my sleeve.

Your breath rattles in a fragile chest
the heart feebly clanks to push blood
when there's a bit in the aorta. You're a
young man in an ancient failing body by
an unknown disease. You lean on a cane
slumped in a chair waiting for a miracle
that won't come for you. You're a skeleton.
We fear you. We fear death and ignorance.

I was driving a Uhaul filled
    with my meager life thus far
    with my latest burned out love
    beside me going to Nashville.
    I thought she'd stay behind.
    I couldn't break hearts clean
    like a good hangman neck snap;
    always death by a thousand cuts.
    The worst lovers stick like glue
    and never seem to have a clue.

It's on your face
as you look at me
a stubborn ****
for all to see,

a floater left
a game of Clue
I came to smoke
inside the loo

I know who left
the thing alone
I'll not say who
used the throne.

It's really okay
I died back in the day
tomorrows were rare
today's didn't care
we took fool's risks
bet our gold on tricks
lost it in the *****
died in faulty fuse.

Forget the rules
don't be tools
be brave don't doubt
turn on, drop out
on Abbey Lane
myself to blame
eating Eden's plum
in full moon's sun
nothing as it seems
outside our dreams.

I heard a snake hiss
our heated first kiss
love unknown is lust
hearts in blind trust
broke piece by piece
rent by wedded lease.