The Low Lows

Ask around, It's Candy's last day. Pills in her pockets, There's a smile on her face Now and then her eyes glaze & she waves. See her cry But not very hard A short stab of something Slips under her guard And blocks the sound of passing cars And stops

This Spring is overgrown I hope it blooms to death. I swam right here with you But the waves want nothing to do with me now & they turn away When they see that I'm not you. The dunes disclose A dull new view. June Gloom June Gloom Late late late on a

Chapter One, user's guide: Nothing comes back, nothing goes fine. Chapter Two: she gets under my skin Just a small puncture, then she's in. Chapter Three: I saw the ghost of me & it was so pretty. One-Two-Three, Is it just me or is it dark for Spring

This suit of fire Is cut entirely From my desire & lined inside With shining flames It might be hot but it fits just right So I go out every night In my burning suit of lights FLAME ON Suit of fire FLAME ON Suit of fire Oh Stephin Merritt Your diving

From a DC-9 at night I look out on a field of lights But that's not for you and I, I know. Pools of darkness lie Both to the left and right Beneath the swollen sky The low lows On a DC-9 in flight They turn the aisle lights off at midnight. I saw a b

Shoot me I am a gun Don't take me off the shelf, You'll be sorry you drew me, Sorry you knew me. I am a gun You think flowers are pretty But they don't mean to be They're just hungry for sun. & it's true I'm a lousy man But I'm a fine, shiny gun. Sor

I walk the way you walk, In fashionable circles. And I talk the way you talk, In fashionable circles. In a fashionable crowd I've found I'm almost always odd man out And I frown & say I'm sorry, Smashing party. On night like these you're never up pas