Tusk And Temper

Bedeck your gown in bricks
 There's leeches stealing across the stage
 Come hell or ocean water
 I won't end up without
 Applaud the gall of the black cloud
 Groping a drunken teenage vow
 As saline drips from her prom dress, damp hands are dessicated
 There's a wolf at the window of the second floor
 who kidnaps your date with a new car
 We both want the same thing
 Bad poetry and assaults at the bar
 Just try and stop me
 We are the only one in the world
 Prepare the ballroom
 Quicksand in front of the coat check
 Waltz with the scarecrow in the spotlight through the rye
 I was born a wanted man
 But I'll die a sailor's wife
 God help me pick the lock to her room
 I have to make this right
 Scream the hounds to sleep for me
 I'm creeping around in your head like a vine
 Your spit is the meat
 of the rose harvested by the dull
 Let fly the doves,
 unhook their leather wings from the fog
 Put your foot and mouth together
 for the sweethearts of Vietnam
 In a photo taken of us
 at the reception held at the jail
 loverboy is breaking up
 just to the right side of me
 I will stop at nothing
 I am the siren that sings you home
 Is that clear?
 I will stop at nothing
 I am the tooth in your jewelry box
 Is that clear?
 Let pry the crows
 Unhook their crooked beaks from the clock
 Bolt the gate and head for the ivory tower
 Adoration is cutting the phone lines to your heart
 Love is here
 I am the snarling and starry-eyed
 We both want the same thing
 Better aim at the stranger in our yard
 Just try to stop me
 I am the blinding light of your life
 Prepare the body
 I've been better but thanks for asking
 Wait with the scarecrow for the spotlight in the rye
 I'll eat you alive
 The calm will come again