I expect you’re entitled to know why i’m making contact With acquaintances scattered all over the land I’d promise you now and again that i’d honour the contract If it hadn’t crumbled away in my hand So we broke that vow independently now But i don’t know why you absolutely deny You bowed down (you […]
Why can’t a man stand alone? Must he be burdened by all that he’s taught to consider his own? His skin and his station, his kin and his crown, his flag and his nation They just weigh him down You know pride is a sin that we tend to forgive But it gets hard to […]
Shall we agree that just this once I’m gonna change my life Until it’s just as tiny or important as you like? And in time we won’t even recall that we spoke Words that turned out to be as big as smoke As smoke that disappears in the air There’s always something that’s smoldering somewhere […]
It’s started to come to me Your new career would probably end like this All that professional lipstick pressed into an amateur kiss Farewell to the studied lines and carefully broken hearts The overpowering perfume and the glimpse of her garter Mingling with the sweet smoldering scent of the martyr Well it’s starting to come […]
When i fall in endless sleep I hope that i’ll be buried deep Let me be the one that fortune favours Even good children got shallow graves Throw another clown to the lions Throw another joan on the blaze Cast me away on the cruel calm ocean And leave me for days and days and […]
He’s out in the woods with his squirrel gun To try to recapture his anger He’s screaming some words at the top of his lungs Until he begins to feel younger But back at his desk in the city we find Our trembling punch-drunken fighter Who can’t find the strength now to punish the length […]
Little Atoms - All This Useless Beauty
I arose and marigold lay down with curious iris Cherry gave to victor her prudence and her virus For the sake of purity i can recall the time and place Between wisdom and murder she gave up her immaculate face My poor belated chastity fell foul of grown up games, With false and lovely modesty […]
I want to vanish This is my fondest wish To go where i cannot be captured Laid on a decorated dish Even in splendor this curious fate Is more than i care to surrender Now it’s too late Whether in wonder or indecent haste You arrange the mirrors and the spools To snare the rare […]
It’s Time - All This Useless Beauty
The party’s over Your time is up You’ve had your last pointless teardrop Washed down in that broken coffee cup This magic moment concludes when that cigarette ends Did you get what you wanted? Well i suppose that depends Well i suppose that depends If you go, if you go Where passion is squandered and […]
Strange things seem to occur, somewhere behind the nursery door Though i was just a bit of a kid, it was the bit that she was looking for Now i don’t know where to begin confessing The way she’s making me feel it can’t be a sin I was taught to believe you were looking […]
