Dirty Pearl

If I should die Before I wake Please, dear friend My soul to take And if my eyes, in freeze, embrace An unkind vision of you Lock tight my lids With your lips fast kiss And if you made her heart beat faster Steal from her just one throb just one thro

She's not your average girl She's just a dirty pearl She might be priceless But they're blind to it She got that halter-top She haunts the truck-stop She's got several secrets Scribbled on a matchbook She's showing you her scars, isn't she She's slee

There's a keyhole in my can of beer And there's an eye behind it Sizing me up and sizing me down My hangover's becoming a thorny crown And dawn is coming over me Love is cruel Love is truly absurd Jesus almost got me I don't know how many prayers he

You said the world's a girl And I'm taking her apart And when I cried you said Beggar girl laugh When my protests went wild You brushed me aside Like the finger of a child When I closed my eyes You took me from the pedestal Down to the abyss My soul