Holes
time, all the long red lines
that take control
of all the smokelike streams
that flow into your dreams
that big blue open sea
that can't be crossed
that can't be climbed
just born between
oh the two white lines
distant gods and faded signs
of all those blinking lites
you had to pick the one tonite
holes, dug by little moles
angry jealous spies
got telephones for eyes
come to you as friends
all those endless ends
that can't be tied
oh they make me laugh
and always make me cry
'til they drop like flies
and sink like polished stones
of all the stones I throw
how does that old song go
how does that old song go
bands, those funny little plans
that never work quite right
Tonite It Shows
into a dream, I took a turn, and promised to return
the way we were, the way we met, the way I lit your cigarette
the way it trailed, into a stream, and lay down between
you had to choose, a side to lose, and divide yourself in two
the way you were, long before, you were a walkin' civil war
but you forget, where the road goes, and tonite it shows
into your soul, I tried to climb, but found the hole to high
for me to leave, the way I'd learned, and found I couldn't turn
the way the trees, and fallin' rain, remind me in a way
the way you were, the day we met, the way I lit your cigarette
the way it changed, into a strange, Cole Porter phrase
but you forget, how the song goes, and tonite it shows
Opus 40
Well she tossed all night like a raging sea
woke up and climbed from the suicide machine
with her Spanish candles and her Persian poems
struck on the rocks and sighed Opus 40 stoned
And scratching her wrists in the pouring rain
She collapses down upon the ocean floor
Again
Tears in waves, minds on fire
Nights alone by your side
Tears in waves, minds on fire
Nights alone by your side
Catskilled mansions, buried dreams
"I'm alive" she cried
"but I don't know what it means"
But somewhere out there across the moonlit sands
There's a line drawn, like the lines on her own hand
And slamming her eyes, locking the door
She collapses down upon the ocean floor
Again