Don't Take Off the Gloves

She's across the ring, spitting pink, menace flicking slurs I'm on the floor, wretched ball, poet with my words So come at me with that savage streak, howling to be loved Just don't take off the gloves Two vicious drunks' teeth have sunk into an open wound Connection lost as though I caught dementia from the moon So come at me when I'm weak, degraded, and undone Just don't take off the gloves That sucker punch, that brittle touch And the cut keeps dripping but the blood won't thicken There's poison in the tap water There's poison in the tap water That sucker punch, that brittle touch And the cut keeps dripping but the blood won't thicken There's poison in the tap water There's poison in the tap water Here it falls again by buried green on bare electric wire How we find this demon lights a heavy-handed fire We're kissing drinks, spilling wind, howling to be loved Oh don't take off, don't take off the gloves That sucker punch, that brittle touch And the cut keeps dripping but the blood won't thicken There's poison in the tap water There's poison in the tap water That sucker punch, that brittle touch And the cut keeps dripping but the blood won't thicken There's poison in the tap water There's poison in the tap water