(Part One: Winter on the Beach)

Gee, did we sit upon

Gold-plated pillows

As Avalon’s snake breath emerged blood and spittle?

The sky was vermouth

As our eyes met the green sea

And I was right there wishing you were there with me below

The officer waited in his car

As if for me to drive 95

With an open scotch-whiskey

Should I sympathize with the moon

That is rising to greet sudden footsteps

Why do we draw such fine lines in the snow?

The ocean, it purrs and it rubs up against me

The oil barge sighs

And the fishing boat steadies

The houses dripped red

As I shook off my head

And I rolled it upon the sand dunes of New Jersey

To my Mother I leave

So much more than I have kept

The God of small things is in my kitchen cabinet

The D.J. might sigh

And the bills may be upset

Just tell them I would if I could but I just can’t go on

(Part Two: Mercury Rising)

I’m stupid, I’m stupid, I’m stupid, No time for the family

Work ‘til I’m blind in the both eyes

I’m tripping, I’m tripping, I’m tripping on thought

That I had when I was young, oh, now where did they come from?

I’m waiting, I’m waiting, I’m waiting around

For us bus for to take me to wait for another

I’m locking, I’m locking, I’m locking wide doors

Please don’t knock, I am sleeping inside on the floor

I’m catching, I’m catching, I’m catching the worm

Just to ask him if he would remember this moment

I’m falling, I’m falling, I’m falling below

Now to memories’ footprints, a sigh and a photo

I’m asking, I’m asking, I’m asking for bread

Would you come back to visit me after I’m dead?

(Part Three: Yesterday Went Away)

Yesterday went away

With the fire in the earth

And was smothered with mud from the ocean

Yesterday took a fall

As it was unrehearsed

And today finds itself duly sweating

Yesterday went away

As I tried to recall

Where the doctor had left my emotion

Yesterday skipped along

With its flowery talk

‘til a bullet stopped dead its strict motion

Yesterday did its hair

In the candlestick glare

With the neighborhood champ and miss homely

Yesterday kicked me from

The tallest of horses

And made off with my youth and my cocaine