Suzie and the Bummer Machine

SUZIE AND THE BUMMER MACHINE

Blurry young eyes drained of prayers

Dreaming in parallel, dying in pairs

Eternal permission to do and to say

Is grudgingly given then taken away

She got into a bit of a scrape

Her cover was blown and there was no escape

It was a dilemma, go big or go home

No intervention, faced it alone

And frozen in foam and the grip of a ghost

Within she flailed, she feared

Getting butterflies

Thinking 'bout those other lives

That you live and die when you're not looking

And just to make it home

You got to ride alone

And there will be no pictures taken

She tried to engage, community vibe

Couldn't conceal the self-loather inside

Advice from Alissa, opinion from Todd

Her grandmama told her let go and let god

Sparing the rod and scarring the child

Inside the one who's gone

To leap out of the fire

She went and cut the wire

Shutting up the choir to hear the witness

Now just another squirrel

Laughing at the world

You made your lip to curl like baby Elvis

And there will be no pictures taken

And there will be no pictures left