José Tries to Leave

Night's changing Spiders seem to levitate in headlights While deer hide dumb in the bushes And three snakes hang from the branches of a small tree In front of her house where he's climbing out of her room José looks back through the window Tangled up in the sheets and she's smiling sweet Talking softly in her sleep He hops down to the driveway Stumbles to his car parked down the street And he turns the key The church looms on the horizon Like the dried up husk of some ancient bug Legs scratching at the rising sun Inside he gathers his things 'Round the scattered bodies of his passed out friends In a drunken spin (huh!) Jimmy yawns and says, "Hey, what's going on?" "Shadows just seem darker these days", says José "Anyway, I'm gonna catch a train" José waits by the tracks, sunrise puts a squint in his eyes And it seems like there's so many little creatures scurrying around he can't see The train comes and he starts running He jumps for it and he slips Yeah, she wakes up and she sees his gone Just like she expected But she hoped she'd be wrong Thought this morning, she could try it on top "Yeah, never get old where you were young" He said while she was nodding off "He's kind of strange", she thinks, yeah, but so is love The kids in the church start to stir As light pours in through the holes in the walls Wondering if José is gone "No one ever really leaves" Jimmy says through a cloud of smoke "Where would he go anyway?" And the sun is up and the birds are pecking Pecking at something lying in the dirt