The newspaper said that you had a stroke I wonder you were just 24 No Beatles come out from your strawberry lips anymore
"Compose yourself!" "suffragette!" and "Talk to me slowly" and the cheers when my parents were gone When we cover the distance between happiness and alcohol
So the closest we came to a confident love was the passion we share for champagne in your mother’s house front porch a kiss was the secret you traded for my Latin skills
Spit down or swallow… what love’s about? Something to cry for or something to hunt, you went straight to the church To question a minister
Now there’s no point in running against you I’d rather blow my thoughts away We drove to the lake and the future was perfectly shaped And you sang on a stick “I’ll get by on a limb but these blue eyes of mine they are closed” "Please let me scream some old-fashioned good song We used to sing in our quiet corner"
Did you crawl down alone? Into the death I wanted for so long The one you wore on your skinny breast The one who makes showers Who makes you feel like nobody else Under my chest under my chest