lyrics
And that’s the hardest part
The hole burned in your heart
Its tissue in the trash
The cardiac ash
Your heart’s remains will not be seen
Just felt as lead inside your dreams
An anchorchain round your throat
An unanswered ransom note
She was a smoothskin crocodile
Trying to walk on hindfeet
She slapped her tail and toothed her smile
And eyed you like bushmeat
And that’s the way it’s ended
That’s the way it’s gone – it goes
Your heart is running down the highway
Running with no clothes
And all of her changes
And all of her twists
She liked to keep you guessing
But you never guessed this
All the restless mornings
All the restless nights
Wondering when – without warning –
She would take flight
And that’s the way it started
That’s the way it went down (down, down)
Restless ain’t worth a quarter
And you know, that’s scarcely a crown
Restless as a trailer
Restless as a pig
Restless as a sailor
After three days in the brig
Restless as the monkey
Hiding in her briefs
Restless as a pilot flame
In a kitchen of grief
That restless muscle is still atwitch
However deep you dig
However high you pile it on
There’s throbbing in its forked twig
They say scar tissue’s
Stronger than the rest of your skin
But it aches – and besides, that’s not the organ
Your scars are situate in
Your restless heart does not want to heal
And it will not relent
Your restless heart won’t relinquish the wheel
Refuses to pay rent
Now you can call it telltale
Or faithful as a dog
But its strings, they must be snipped
To release you from this fog
And all of her changes
And all of her twists
She liked to keep you guessing
But you never guessed this
For that’s the hardest part
The hole burned in your heart
The tissue in the trash
The cardiac ash
credits
from
Roughcuts, Fall 2010,
track released September 27, 2010
Monday, 27 September 2010
Misha Hoekstra
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