BASKING IN THE TWILIGHT

 

knock, knock, knock

please let me in

i'm pounding 

on my coffin lid

 

see, i've been spending

too much time again

with these ghosts 

i like to call my friends

 

and i've been weeping 

under the willow tree

watching flames crawl

on its leaves

i'll watch the seasons melt

and blow away with me

 

so, i'll float on 

and take my comrades too,

and if you want us,

you can follow the moon

we'll be waiting in the twilight,

basking in the twilight soon.

 

 

see, i'm fond of spirits

'cause mine's all broken

life's pleasures just left

pain to soak in

 

and new signs of life 

is what i'm seeking

but these shattered windows

obstruct my peeping

 

and it seems like mankind's defecation's

led to our degeneration

the bowels of earth

are overflowin'

can't seem to get

a movement goin'

 

so i'll walk alone

shit, i like it that way,

though sometimes i stagger,

and sometimes i stray,

but you tell that twilight 

i'm on my way

i'll be basking in the twilight

today

 

 

the wind cried, it crept

in my window crack

harbouring haunting,

nightmares of past,

and it smelled like the sea,

so it brought me back

to those lonesome old days

my poor heart attacked

 

and with daggers and roses,

a pocket of clovers

i went by the way of my

slow suicide

my heart keeps on quittin'

but it won't let me die

i found out the devil

just isn't that kind

 

so with this old, familiar

empty feel in my guts

i've made it through 

the bruises and cuts

my sleeve's still full of aces,

but i'm all outta luck

and i thank god in heaven

for blessin' a drunk

 

you know we're all just hangin'

like that old willow's branches

and soon the cold wind's 

gonna blow us away

tomorrow holds pestilence

and yesterday's flowers dead,

so enjoy the twilight today

bask in the twilight today

the twilight is coming your way.

 

 

DESPERATION ALLEY

 

our sorrows hang here

like decrepid pinatas

see, our candy's all rotten

so we take what we gotta

when you hang here

you know you've hit bottom

so welcome my dear

to desperation alley

 

i strolled out on the avenues

this evening found me badly

i peered right past the mannequins

down desperation alley

the ground smelled like my childhood

the clouds moved like my dreams

i found myself in this goddamned place

stuck halfway in between

 

so i drove beside the railroad tracks

i was making big decisions

one hand held my scalpel

and the other sewed incisions

so i drove a little further

'til i ran into the future

i spit into the wind

and i ripped out all my sutures.

 

now a tangled, tainted mess

i had to change my shirt

i searched for my designer,

but the devil found me first

i walked into a thrift store,

but they wouldn't give me service

they said half naked bleeding men

just tend to make 'em nervous

 

so i asked "what about jesus?"

they still pointed towards the door

i guess godliness meant cleanliness

and they had to mop the floor

so i found a pavement preacher,

and i knelt in his confessor

my skeleton's out the closet, now

his guts rot in my dresser

 

i swerved between the raindrops

they wouldn't stop they just kept comin'

but it was just a pitter patter

like god shaking out his johnson

and i wished that it would pour

so i could feel a little cleaner

and the clouds would part, 

and my moon would show

it had been a while

since i had seen her

 

and we'd dance until she left me

then the sun would show its face

and i would run for cover

for fear that i'd disintegrate

and i'll dive into a diner

maybe you could meet me there for coffee

we'll end up back at my place

down in the cemetary

 

and we could bury

our sorrows there

between the death and decay

it only takes one drop of blood

to make tomorrow go away

but you'll be coming back

at least that's what they say

'cause yer nightmares will wait for you

back on desperation alley