The little that we know of him is whispered through the halls He has all sorts in formaldehyde and a rifle on the wall They post his correspondence in the cracks beneath the door He creeps out in the night with dogs the size of a horse
We’re counting all the voices and the footsteps on the floor The twitching of the curtains and the twisting of the locks The shaking of the floorboards, the radio goes loud It creeps up in the morning, and by night it starts to pound
He plays a form of trumpet made from old parts of a pram And likes his lovers like his whisky and he drinks for 15 men They say he taught the tango or even tried his hand At a language close to Spanish from some crazy, far off land
We’re pressed against the wallpaper tracing every noise The shifting of the furniture, the patterns of his voice The shaking of the floorboards, the radio goes loud It creeps up in the morning, and by night it starts to pound