hmmmm..................................

Hang up the phone, the line is dead

The bitter lyrics yet unsaid

I sit alone inside your head

I breathe and tell myself I'm dead

Wind and wayward madness fell

I sinned, I sinned, take me to hell

But heck, I've tasted all the bliss

That's makes the music feel like this

That makes this pen run so dry

As I bite my cyanide

As stars bloom to blue outside

As darkness turns to bitter light

I stare up into empty space

I miss your bitter bliss, the taste,

Still lingers in my mouth, my head

Spins with all the songs I've read

I brush aside your hair in strands

I kiss away your pain, your hand,

Felt warm in mine, but now I'm bleak

Prufrock taught me not to speak

Upon your crucifix I'm slain

In ecstacy is all my pain

Burning out like a distant star

I'm halfway up to Valhalla

Can we soar on just one wing?

Can I find that silver ring?

Can you bring back just one day?

The raindrops, coffee, Hemmingway?

Metro rides, it's cold inside,

Hold me, hold me, till I'm dry

Mermaid, mermaid, sing to me

Of guitars, love and Vitamin C

Flowers made of iron wire

Wrath the blooms like blood and fire

Joy that rings like chords of life

Treachery cuts me like a knife

Afternoons on messy beds

Songs exploding in my head

Laughter ringing true and false

Silence walking down your halls

Rooftops drizzling with your song

The chords I'm playing sound so wrong

Lightening flickering stark and strong

Your softly parted lips in song

Broken clouds of bitter grey

Light at the end of a rainy day

Drizzling drops on puddles rain

Slowly drying tear-drop-stains

The fickle words of foolish bards

Fate is written on the cards

The Queen of Hearts and curving smiles

Bitter breath of would-be guile

I look straight through warm facades

On shattered glass your beauty marr'd

Staind, grained, the old pictures

Are these thoughts, or lying words?

Can I sing of all that's there?

Can I twirl your pretty hair?

Do I dare to eat a peach?

How deep inside me did you reach?

Can you see the dark inside?

When heaven breaks, where will you hide?

For God knows there is no one there

No one with whom you can share

When sex and cigarettes are dry

When there's no sorrow left to cry

When you've been stabbed and turned to dust

When all those flowers turn to rust

You wingless fall from out the stars

You cut yourself to see the scars

And voices scream inside your head

And all those lyrics that you've read

The dangling conversations, break

And stars like horse hairs loosely shake

Tears are flooding through the door

Your fingers slipping on the chords -

- All saying just ONE frightful thing

You're all alone, and though you sing

Of everlasting love and joy

You are but hedonism's toy

Alone, the woods are dark and deep

Alone, the path is far too steep

Alone, the Listeners laugh at you

Alone, the misty street lamp dew

The leaves of autumn turn to frost

Your picture turns to auburn rust

Hang up the phone, the song is dead

And all the cliche'd lyrics read

I sit alone inside your head

Breathing though in truth I'm dead