Maudlin Jack

Dear friend karnivale
 And confidant kabaret
 Among us pooled 14 knives
 And to me what did they say?
 Oh i being me
 Being a real maudlin jack - they says
 'Go to m'ladies foxskin chambers
 With a rook and a pack'
 They says 'go to m'ladies foxskin chambers
 With an axe and a rack'
 Oh novella!
 The psychedelia,
 It dovetails and it spirals
 'Hind my eyes
 I's that glass-eyed knifeman
 Bleeding scarlet on your chipped tile!
 I's that man with heartbreaker
 In the back
 A rook and a pack,
 An axe and a rack!
 Well just then karnivale, kabaret
 And a coupla devilish crooks
 Were hummin on the corner
 I come out cut and hooked
 'Well she looked me in the eye
 I's buzzin
 I's aflame
 She see my ginger antonym
 And she a charlatan liar
 Then i heard a crash
 I heard a crash
 Oh! raven you got me
 Yes raven you got me
 Oh yeah!
 Well he threw me a spade
 So i struck him
 I struck him
 And i's burnin
 I's aflame
 I's hummin
 I's buzzin
 Oh yeah,
 Oh yeah
 Oh ascension, ascension
 Don't call me by my first name
 My first name
 I's burnin
 I's aflame
 Is hummin
 I's hummin
 Oh i heard a crash
 I heard a crash
 I heard a crash
 So I
 I struck him
 I struck him