lonely lilting Lilly-Anne
making love making hate
making art with her wires
An owl flies above her house
in ever widening gyres

red brunette blonde or bald
she burns my heart like a lighter does a spider
so much gold in her rusty soul
but a tangle getting tighter

do you love me, I need to know
like a midnight fire, my hearts aglow
she puffed her cigarette then my casket closed
blew a ring in my face and said I don’t think so

Lonely lilting Lilly-Anne
walked in a church just to say god damn
Preacher got to drinking, one in each hand
10 commandments later he was out on the lamb

she knows the stars bright in the sky
knows the skip of my heart and always why
knows what I want and why I lie
sees there's no reason to hear me cry