Wide-Eyed, Legless - Laura Veirs

Down among the dead

The wide-eyed and the legless, only half a head

Half a mouth to laugh from the porthole

With the more than faded epitaphs

Will you ever more tie up my hair with velvet bows?

Will you ever more pull out the splinters from my toes?

I don’t think so Out in the hornet rain the swarming stingers

Pumping poison through my veins

Lacking on the star-crossed lover’s map

Take the beating lash, lash for lash

Will we ever more kiss on the boardwalks fading red?

In the light of the waves and the comets waning tail

I don’t think so No more looking back, looking back, looking back

Faded epitaph

No more looking back, looking back, looking back

Faded epitaph

No more looking back, looking back, looking back

Faded epitaph

No more looking back, looking back, looking back

Faded epitaph