1. burnin'

I burned down a house for you

And tore all my idols in two

The poster on the bedroom wall, remember

Staring down the ceiling stars alone at night

For ten years glow they gave me light

I asked for a hand to end it

But those little white fingerlings bent

The curling trust of a helpless infant

Two brothers’ dreams to take the world laid sound to sleep

And this is the best you’ll ever be

Wipe away every tear

There’s nothing left to feel but joy here

Place to lay, green forgotten shade

A new soothsayer divining all the ways

Green forgotten shade

I poured out my heart in the drain

Thought it would change the pain

And turn me into somebody that I could live with

But we’re four months deep in storytime land and he holds my head

A spirit in the mirror or a knife in bed

Wipe away every tear

There’s nothing left to feel but joy here

Place to lay, green forgotten shade

A new soothsayer divining all the ways

Green forgotten shade

Stumble hot through Sumer rumble

Tablet cabaret

Green forgotten shade

Tarot cards and olive oil

Taste and see the flame

Dancers interlock and load, tip-totem off in dissonance

Burning down, it’s fate, I’m flaming out, I’m finally getting it

Pair of eyes to carolize two terribly surprise adrift

Heaven, earth, and hell between us

I’m burying the myth

So I’m brushing my teeth for you

Growing my hair and singin’ more too

I don’t want to spin in a teacup forever

But you’re grabbing the wheel and you’re turning it slow

And you look at me

COMMENTS: a headshrinker nods off to his client's ego death

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