Black Lashes

Black lashes they hide the pain

Tattooed on a red blood stain

Flood gates mind the backwater flow

Nicotine and espresso

Locked in what the ego denies

Quietude and a clever disguise

Mind steady before the quake

Razor blades in the cake

Everywhere you go I go

Looking upon tomorrow

Lined up like a domino

Black lashes in the shadow

You were such a clever kid

Doing better than your parents did

Scaling towers without a sweat

Conducting choirs with a cigarette

Now the world has found its way

Charlatans in the shadow play

Left alone with your simian mind

And the thoughts are unkind

Everywhere you go I go

Looking upon tomorrow

Lined up like a domino

Black lashes in the shadow

Everywhere you go I go

Looking upon tomorrow

Lined up like a domino

Black lashes in the shadow