not 'smokin', but:


I'm lying in my bed, the blanket is warm
This body will never be safe from harm
Still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal
Touch my skin to keep me whole

If only you'd come back to me
If you laid at my side
Wouldn't need no mojo pin
To keep me satisfied

Don't wanna weep for you, don't wanna know
I'm blind and tortured, the white horses flow
The memories fire, the rhythms fall slow
Black beauty I love you so

Precious, precious silver and gold
And pearls in oyster's flesh
Drop down we two to serve and pray to love
Born again from the rhythm screaming down from heaven
Ageless, ageless and i'm there in your arms

Don't wanna weep for you, don't wanna know
I'm blind and tortured, the white horses flow
The memories fire, the rhythms fall slow
Black beauty I love you so

The welts of your scorn, my love, give me more
Send whips of opinion down my back, give me more
Well it's you i've waited my life to see
It's you I've searched so hard for

Don't wanna weep for you, I don't wanna know
I'm blind and tortured, the white horses flow
The memories fire, the rhythms fall slow
Black beauty I love you so

Lovers are dreamers and I`ve been walking in my sleep
When I awake I`ll never take a chance that I can`t keep
A thousand first times never add up to last
And I`ve been told a heart of gold melts away too fast

But I didn`t count on you
Running into me
No I didn`t count on you

I could learn to love you
I could get used to this
I could learn to love you
And the shelter of your kiss

The day`s not as hard as trying to go through it alone
And in the end you can`t depend on any love
But your own
Sometimes the impossible shows up undeclared
That`s when the impossible
Shows you that it`s possible
Maybe even beautiful
To double what you`ve dared

But I didn`t count on you
Running into me
No I didn`t count on you

I could learn to love you
I could get used to this
I could learn to love you
And the shelter of your kiss

A BODY

The Vermin came to claim their own
Investment from the stranglers
Nice boys, dressed in Gucci shoes
Their buttocks clenched in wranglers

They Broke a neck or two and fell
Beyond grasp. I lay very still
I smelled them on the wind as they
Precisely moved in for the kill

My hipbone broke, I swore revenge
Spiked glove, rural motorcade
I went out looking for the one who’d
Cash in on the vows I’d made

Sat me down upon him, rode him
opened up a can of worms
Told him of the ails I’d suffered
Said I could not come to terms

With this morose injustice as it
Juxtaposed upon my brow
Asked him to avenge my marrow
Seamlessly rejoining now

Should have listened when I said:
“The gullible make headline news
Cannon fodder picked up by the
Blizzard of the evening news”.

But as it was and as it is now
No one wants to hear a voice
Unless it spills from arid lips
Attached to narcoleptic boys

So rode my brave new soldier with
A slight disgust inside of me
Dismounted him and lied to him
Up, around and through my teeth.

And as the zephyr whistled through
the gap between his teeth I knew
That I would add the last drop of
my blood to consecrate this brew

Which simmered by the bedpost
as I claimed to have been wronged
My strong new man proclaiming
he would do as I had longed

Sent him out to hunt you down
My straddled necromancer
Drew his sword from out it’s sheath
to cut out the malignant cancer

I hope he'll find you unaware
tomorrow or the day thereafter
Breaks your legs and ties you wrists
tightly to that stinking rafter

On which you so prominently
kept my foolishness afloat
La Reine Margot and I shall set out
for you in our little boat

And we shall find you sleepdrunk on
the tide which carries all and none
We'll dowse your flesh in kerosene
in rivulets the brew shall run

Into your eyes, into your mouth
Fill your navel, sting your groin
And we'll ordain your torso with
some amulets and one small coin

Currency for he who'll take
your body to the netherworld
Watch now, as Margot untiest the
knot, her hair becomes unfurled

And from it's nest a box of matches
slips into my palm, and I
shall venture now to strike it,
watch it sparkle in your eye

How can I claim heroics when
You keep me on this leash
Nurse me and console me, once
You’ve got me on my knees?

It's easy, I'm equipped for this,
I'm only here on borrowed time
When you first hit me I went out
to trade my only life-line

To trade it for a frame of mind
a match, an executioner
Margot stepped forth from halflight
-she entranced me with a whisper

Claiming "If you burn this man
along with him you'll burn the past".
And as I contemplated this
her voice rang out like broken glass

"For he shall be your downfall,
your betrayal and denunciation
Dowse the man and burn him,
whilst we murmur incantations".

And now we've come full circle,
for you've tought me obediance
I will obey and strike the match
I will obey and watch flames dance

As smoke curls up toward the moon
and as your body crackles
Margot and I will set off home
Ordained and freed from all our shackles.


this is not a dream we shared, it's a nightmare we divided, equally amongst ourselves