Saturday, July 31, 2004

Ride the blue bus, baby.

The two lovers
in the front seat
of my car
we ride

The two lovers
in the front seat
of my car
we go

The two lovers
in the front seat
of my car
i wondered if it was possible
and yes it was
you can grab the stars
and yes it was
you can rip out the bars
they're rusted

night was a silence
the day retreated
the water of the waves
it's taken away

this car's rolling on
wheels
this car's rolling on
nothing can stop it
he's at the wheel
his hands grip
there's no moment but this

i was gonna read this book
the witches're in it
i was gonna get lost in the words
but night was silence
it took it away
the car kept on

The two lovers
in the front seat
of my car
we stopped once
pulled to the side
the wheel wasn't spinning right
"it's mud" he said
there was no mud

something was stuck
something was stuck
something was stuck in there
something was stuck
something was stuck
something was stuck in there

she pulled it out
threw it
but i put it in my trunk
to keep until forever

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She remembered
the tooth fairy
how she'd come in
and take her teeth
away
and give her money

She remembered
keeping her eyes closed
when the fairy came
and feeling the hand
brushing the pillow up
to put the money in

Right now
she lies in bed
she's out of her head
playing the game called "go insane"
she's bending her brain

her thoughts are open
her lips are spoken
she knows the tooth fairy's not real
but she can feel that hand
it's brushing down on her
she wants to open her eyes
she thinks it's there


it's there it's there
it's there

she feels it on her finger
her ring finger
she feels it touch her ring
her wedding ring
she feels it caress it

Then there is
a roaming wilderness of pain
she feels it cut away
her finger
her ring finger

She opens her eyes
she's playing a game
it's called "go insane"
she's bending her brain

at least that's what she thinks
but what she think's not real
is real

her finger's gone
it's gone her finger's gone
it's gone
so long
see you sometime
some other time
i've got to go
so long so long
it's gone
her finger's gone
her ring finger's gone

and the tooth fairy sure isn't real
but out there in the dark
there's a finger-stealer
a monster you'd do well not to meet

her marriage will fall away
her marriage will dissolve
her resolve
her marriage will dissipate
her marriage will decay
her absolve
her finger
her finger her finger
the ring finger
her marriage

she's playing a game
called "go insane"
we're going too

tomorrow morning she'll say
"i cut it off with a knife
when i was at the sink,"
but we know what to think.
we know the imagination makes
creatures we'd never like to meet.

she did it herself
she cut it away
there was cancer there
now she won't have to die today

sometime far away
a child in her arms
she's in court
and it's all going away

the child's custody
is to the father
because she had to play that game
play "go insane"
she got sent where she'll brood in her pain

and i can see her
lying there
cutting away her other fingers
and when those are all gone
cutting away down there
in the middle
by that womb

she's doing it with her eyes closed
she never believed in the tooth fairy
but she believes in other things
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