Vanitas

sedated white noise and voices voices voices talking with so little to say talking jackpots selling what they don’t have bargaining free for all is it? I’m amazed at the crawling single file of wankers a parade a charade a masquerade and words words words oh my raining down on the hungry mob thankful worshipping I am constantly consistently amazed and still I wonder what else is there to come wrapped in rubber tainted pink or whatever the iron gaze flickers interspersed with kind words and always an excuse reeking of coffee cigarettes and bullshit fronting realms of nothing look around listen and tell me is it me?

Into twilight.

Right out of your hand

Please forgive me
If I appear unkind
But any fool can tell you
It's all in your mind

Down in the meadow
The old lion stirs
Puts his hand 'cross his mouth
He has no use for words

Poor little girl
With your handful of snow
Poor little girl
Had no way to know

And you've got me eating
You've got me eating
You've got me eating
Right out of your hand

I mean you no harm
When I tell you you're blind
Give a sucker an even break
He'll lose it all, every time

The airborne starlings circle
Over the frozen fields
The hollyhocks hang harmlessly
And the old lion yields

And you've got me eating
You've got me eating
You've got me eating
Right out of your hand

- Nick Cave

Into starlight.

Sleepless Eyes

for eyes like
yours

honey at sundown
emeralds
trapped in
amber

for gold
spiralling round
your face
resting sweetly
on your
shoulders

for eyes like
yours
and no other
gently staring and
soothing
over stars
and
scars

Into starlight.

Lucky Town

House got too crowded clothes got too tight
And I don't know just where I'm going tonight
Out where the sky's been cleared by a good hard rain
There's somebody callin' my secret name

I'm going down to Lucky Town
Going down to Lucky Town
I wanna lose these blues I've found
Down in Lucky Town
Down in Lucky Town

Had a coat of fine leather and snakeskin boots
But that coat always had a thread hangin' loose
Well I pulled it one night and to my surprise
It led me right past your house and on over the rise

I'm going down to Lucky Town
Down to Lucky Town
I'm gonna lose these blues I've found
Down in Lucky Town
Down in Lucky Town

I had some victory that was just failure in deceit
Now the joke's comin' up through the soles of my feet
I been a long time walking on fortune's cane
Tonight I'm steppin' lightly and feelin' no pain

Well here's to your good looks baby now here's to my health
Here's to the loaded places that we take ourselves
When it comes to luck we make our own
Tonight I got dirt on my hands but I'm building me a new home

Down in Lucky Town
Down in Lucky Town
I'm gonna lose these blues I've found

- Bruce Springsteen

Into twilight.