High Rise

Came at me like a wrecking ball,

 Like a high

 -

 rise summons concrete

 Can’t remember what there was before

 You caught me dizzy up the backstreet

 Flowers wait for rain

 The quarry’s full of snakes

 Now the singers all sound the same

 Sinners picking baby names

 Silver Belly holding marigolds

 In

 the summer of the listless

 Say you love me like a stereo

 Turning all your precious records

 Can you meet me unafraid,

 Eating fire and coming clean

 Take me just like a train

 Wild as the wind is strange

 There’s no owning

 Loaning the moans to me

 No atoning

 What it takes now to be free

 Holy rollers and hyssop leaves

 While the punks pry out serpents

 Devil’s nettle and centaury,

 Whatever you can get your hands on

 Will you meet me unafraid

 Eating fire and coming clean

 Take me just like a train

 Wild as the wind is strange

 There’s no owning

 Loaning the moans to me

 And no atoning

 What it takes now to be free