Are You There

Are you there?

Did patience wane?

Did you fall asleep

To your four track recording of rain?

Do you feel tame?

Do you feel insane?

Is there anyone in the audience

Currently living in vain?

Hard times

Old ways

Takes up a lot of time, hard times

Uses up whole days

All those actresses, leasing compact cars

Boiling water at four in the morning

In the outfield of Elysian Park

Gone too soon

To the void saloon

All night lighting wet cigarettes

In a dog breath room

Rough lovers

In deserted hallways

Crazed with unbuttoning

Everything must go, button-wise

Fumbling with keys to the door

On the ninety-fourth floor, knees buckling in the threshold

The world open wide

Open wide, and we just shiver on the counter

'Cause we're both already there

Why don't you go put a record on?

Why don't you sing me a little song?

Oh-oh-oh

Oh-oh

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