Diving too deep for coins
All of your street light eyes
Wide on my plastic toys
Then when the cops closed the fair
I cut my long, baby hair
And stole me a dog-eared map
And called for you everywhere
Have I found you
Flightless bird, jealous, weeping
Or lost you, American mouth
Big bill looming
Now I'm a fat house cat
Nursing my sore, blunt tongue
Watching the warm, poisoned rats
Curl through the white fence cracks
Pissing on magazine photos
Those fishing lures
Thrown in the cold and clean
Blood of Christ mountain stream
Have I found you
Flightless bird, grounded, bleeding
Or lost you, American mouth
Big bill still going down
I was a quick, wet boy Diving too deep for coins All of your street light eyes Wide on my plastic toys Then when the cops closed the fair I cut my long, baby hair And stole me a dog-eared map And called for you everywhere Have I found you Flightless bird, jealous, weeping Or lost you, American mouth Big bill looming Now I'm a fat house cat Nursing my sore, blunt tongue Watching the warm, poisoned rats Curl through the white fence cracks Pissing on magazine photos Those fishing lures Thrown in the cold and clean Blood of Christ mountain stream Have I found you Flightless bird, grounded, bleeding Or lost you, American mouth Big bill still going down Explain Request ×
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