A smile has been calling me for a long time
Sometimes it squeezes by in smirks
I tried to cover my ears pretending not to hear
(Like Peco)
Let's learn the language of the trees
I'll hunch my heart into my knees
Prepare a pegasus for every naked face
Inhaling hope through furrowed frowns
You think I sold my soul to Satan
I swear I gave myself to God
What we love will make us happy
We all make up our own right and wrongs
Bereave such salient an epicure
We'll change the world with our monumental miniscule gestures
I live with all my decisions
All somnolescent dissipation
Exacerbate the exclamation point right out
Tug on the apron of our instincts
While watchers cluck disapproval
Of all the proud but beaten down
To think their suffering proves that they're strong
Alack the day we left the sordid soused
The rascal roused running round
The crooked crown
Like chimerical starlings
Over the servant left supine
So act adult atop your dormer window
Where the whole world and no one can see
Can't be an anchorite in this breathless city
But we can practice sociometry
Line up sophomoric slams with slander
Vesture pained dignity with love's liniment
Derail the amorist with his silver swagger
And his intrusion on rustic refinement
Cover the crestfallen with golden paper planes
Pretend and playing that it's autumn
Gently undaunted by the knowledge
Of being a burden to the ground
Now I'm a burden to all around
She's back in Sin City
It's time for me to come back down
It's time I made a decision
It is time I made a choice
If I'm in debt to God and you
Then I'm in debt
To everyone who hates me enough to raise their voice
Don't let me be found in angry books
Frustrated that they never get no second looks
Keep me alive by the soft love made by calloused hands
For what do we live for if not
If not to do good?