rapt bone with sinew, muscle twisted up over what has happened to you <> tighter than the seal on that keg o stout a yard from my whirl <> not one kid in here has a clue just how hard this shit hit us <> GIRL <> there’s abouta million silver diamonds in the surface of the bar & four candles in talcum glass slow dancing where you aren't <> to the bump-n-grind blues & boogie on the box <> we fell so far behind in life chasin the devil’s redheaded stepsister <> outa the sound of two hearts beating as one as two, hearts beating as one jus like it’s been done for 21 New Years and how many wakeups <> GIRL <> you know i mean to setout countin every blessing with every shakeup <> & the battle within me has narrowed a score, i just don’t want you to hurt anymore, no <> because you’ve hurt enough for everyone i know … and that’s not to say that people aren’t adequately hurtin <> no, that’s not to say that the sound of music’s not turned sour for everyone, in a matter of speakin <> but for a time there …we felt we’d found our island to be one with the sound <> but they nuked us with their puke born of recklessness and left us to drown <> easy left unsaid, yeah, but i can feel it seeping up from the cracks in the ground <> GIRL <> so (woe) maybe we had it comin ~~ or maybe, frighteningly so, …maybe it was just i had it comin <> and you were there between it and me, ...standing guard like true lovers do stand guard unselfishly <> n got clipped by a gravely-natured n spiteful adversary bid o bad blood chemistry without a conscience <> oh, GIRL, i hope that ain’t the truth <> as…now i lay me down here beside you