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Buckeye Woman
Collapse into these drunken eyes.
Darling, your mascara is smeared.
You're so beautiful when you cry.
Do you mind if I call you dear?
Life is so big, so penetrating.
It's a city at the ice caps.
Drunk and wild lets disappear
Behind the blinds of this small flat.
You skated past me so majestically
When we first met that time.
There's no more work at the factory,
But love is still sublime.
There's no more work at the factory
And yiour job prospects look dim.
You have a mountain of bills to pay
And a car with broken rims.
Baby, you're a big girl now.
It's a big world, with big problems.
Love can bandage many pangs,
But love can't always solve them.
You said you loved eccentrics.
You ran your hand down your slight arm.
You picked at your roller skates.
Your fair skin had me disarmed.
And I was fond of you 'til now.
'Til now I had something to say.
But now you're something bigger.
Someone true to span the days.
You have broken into pieces.
We sway beneath a fan.
If I hadn't caught you weeping
I'd scarcely be a man.
Janis Joplin rasps from the stereo.
The night pounds on and on.
You cling to me like a father
But I feel more like a son.
So if you're done with crying
Allow me to interrupt this embrace
With a kiss from someone dumb
As if this weren't the case.
You are tremendous in your dress.
You are a day's delight.
You are a mouse with fig leaves,
A crescent moon at night.
I am just a poor boy.
I am borken in many ways.
There's food and love I'm left with,
And perhaps your luring ways.
Don't hang from me like a cloth.
Inject life into these veins.
We're both drunk and stupid for it.
We have no reason to complain.
Kiss me by the spider's moon.
Allow me to interrupt you,
All your crying for just one moment.
A life together draws soon.
At least the promise, the simple hope.
It's come to me just now.
If I could tell you how I feel
You'd surely lose your scowl.
For you are something special,
And if one can love just once
With all his best intentions
That's something he has done.
