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Arinn Dembo
Golden glow...fading sun
Broken road...day is done
Walking home...all alone
Doesn't hurt...jagged stone
I can't tell you...what I've seen...
They can smell you...where I've been...
I'm so tired...day is done
Hurts my eyes...kill the sun...
CHORUS:
Duty calls...time for bed,
Iron walls...in my head,
Time to dream...time to fly,
I can't scream...I can't die.
Duty calls...
Golden glow...double sun
Now I know...too late to run
Shadows crawl...by the lake
Too far gone...my mistake...
Rise and walk...the silver sand
This must be...the promised land
Dry and die...stars that sing
Empty temple...yellow king...
CHORUS:
Duty calls...time to go
Curtain falls...feel the flow
Time to dream...time to fly
Time to touch the killing sky....
Bunny slippers, got my shot
Let my Mom wipe up my snot
I can't move--just watch t.v.
Wonder who
I used to be...
Eat my dinner, take it slow
Like waiting for a tree to grow
Try to think--but that's a pain
Fuzzy fingers
In my brain...
CHORUS:
But I need you...like a loaded gun
This vampire...loves the rising sun
You thrill me...like a shark attack
Just kill me...don't keep coming back.
Doctor says, I'll be ok
Maybe let me go someday
No one knows just what you did
On the altar
With our kid.
CHORUS:
I love you...like a loaded gun,
I need you...like the rising sun,
You thrill me...like a shark attack
I killed you...please stop coming back...
Our life begins, without any words
Sometimes we don't even breathe
They slap us, screamin', play the fool
Last call, last call, everyone out of the pool.
The lies come down
Like blinding rain
Mother's milk, tender wing
Love you, love you
You sweet little thing.
We get a new skin,
Our life begins,
In fear and pain
Plain outrage, to be here again.
But we drink it down, we learn to forgive,
They teach us to live.
Dream--dream in colors smeared
Color out of space,
Color out of place
Red that rips you ear to ear
And yellow that I fear.
Friends...won't...tell you what you wanna hear
So I guess that he must be a friend
Even though I lost an ear
I hear him singing loud and clear
And he'll be with me until the end.
CHORUS:
I've got this friend, you know, he makes me paint
My patron and my patron saint
And I try to love, I try to be
But it's no good--he smells it on me...
Smells it on me...
Leaves of grass-fields of grain
Black birds rise
To stain the skies
Crying out in pain
This is the last time
I raise the brush.
I give it up
I relinquish
All that I love...
CHORUS:
'Cause I've got this friend, who makes me paint
My patron and my patron saint
And I try to live, and I try to be
But it's just no good, he can smell it on me
Smell it on me.
Ran away from home.
Tried to catch the train.
But it doesn't slow or stop
When it passes through this town...
I'd like to get away.
And find a warmer sun.
I don't want to hurt anyone.
Ran away from home.
Tried to catch the train.
But it doesn't even slow down
When it passes through this town.
And even if I went, I would
Never be alone
No matter where I am
There I go.
CHORUS (to be screamed aloud):
Hastur!
Ia-shibboleth
Rek'yame! Col'kyamar!
Tuanta! J'kire cha!
Ia! Shub-Niggurath!
Kiri'ay! Eleison!
I tried to run away...
I tried to go back home...
But there isn't any place...
Where I can be alone...
I sat down at the table...
I ate all I could hold...
Could be I'll get hungry, on the road....
I said I loved you-I lied.
I said I loved you-fuck, I lied.
I loved myself better than you,
Because of that, you died.
I love the jacket, I love my nurse.
I love my Master, love His curse.
I love my fucking medication
I love creamed corn and light sedation
And here I am-in bliss...
Here I am, in bliss
All I've got now is me
And funny thing....
It's you that I miss.
It's you I miss
It's you I miss...
Dr. Seuss' The Repairer of Reputations
(with sincere apologies to both Chambers and Giesel)
That Mr. Wilde!
That Mr. Wilde!
I do not like
That Mr. Wilde!
I do not like that
Mr. Wilde.
He has no ears
His eyes are wild.
But is that either here or there?
You’re right; it’s neither here nor there
Poor Hildred’s caught up in his snare.
He wants to wear the Yellow Crown:
Kill his doctor, paint the town.
What is in this biscuit box
Your cousin hides beneath his socks?
The biscuit box?
He thinks it locks!
He keeps within
This “safe” of tin
A crown of brass and cheap white glass.
Poor Hildred wants to be a King
He’d kill you for that shabby thing.
Would you? Could you? Kill him, too?
He means you harm – and Constance too!
I would not, could not, kill him, no.
You might have to, someday soon.
You may have to shoot the loon!
I would not, could not, harm one hair
Of Hildred’s head. Have a care
And put away his biscuit box.
After all, he thinks it locks!
Put his costume jewelry down;
Do not disturb his brazen crown.
I know my cousin means no harm
There is no cause for your alarm.
His doctor’s slain!
The man’s insane!
Can you see it now, Castaigne?
He is insane! As plain as day!
He wants to kill my fiancee!
I would not, could not see it then
Poor Hildred’s lost his mind again
And he’s far worse than years ago!
I was so blind! I did not know!
Will Constance and her father pay
That I did not send him away?
I never dreamed, in all my life
He’d run off with that kitchen knife!
Yes!
At the door!
There at the door!
Shoot him, shoot him at the door!
I would not, could not fire before
But now he stands at her front door!
But tell me, why you let him go?
I had to let mad Hildred go;
He’d run upstairs, she was below,
And if there was the slightest chance
That Hildred’s henchman, Mr. Vance
Had used Wilde’s knife to kill my love
I’d send to hell both men above!
But as it happened, all was well -
In less time than it takes to tell
I held her close, and blessed the man
Who’d thwarted Wilde’s and Hildred’s plan.
But what came next? Your cousin’s death?
Or is the man still drawing breath?
No, he is dead.
Strapped to a bed
And screaming for his diamond crown
With seven men to hold him down
That’s how my cousin met his end
A sorry tale you tell, my friend!
What of the dwarf that men called Wilde?
I did not like that Mr. Wilde.
He had no ears, his eyes were wild
He once claimed that he could repair
A man’s good name, were it not fair
The price he asked was very high.
Most men, like Vance, preferred to die.
Should we go into Wilde’s house?
Should we bring his cat a mouse?
We should not go into his house
His cat likes hunting Man, not mouse
But this is neither here nor there
There is no choice.
We’ll climb the stair.
