Long Island Blues

I see a drug bust in your eyes

There are bruises on your thighs

I can tell you're trying to hide

All the darkness in your mind

You got sawdust on your toes

From that sports bar down the road

You have beer glass in your feet

You say: Kiss me on the cheek

Some people get paid to talk

Some people get paid to listen

Some people buy a ticket

And can't wait for intermission

Just like some might love you blindly

Some might love you with conditions

Some will love you like an unloved child

Loves family traditions

Now she's tainted by the syringe

Try to rhyme a word with orange

I'm a cheap and ugly sinner

To whose soul love is so foreign

So if you're sideways

And if you wanna go my way

Before a meteor shower

Decides that you should be devoured

Whether you're locked up in the tower

Or if you charge them by the hour

In mama's eyes you were a flower

Forget the aftertaste of life gone sour

Will you finish what you started?

Travel the seas you never parted

Remember things you disregarded

Communicate with the departed

Believe in things you thought weren't founded

Prepare to always be astounded

Or keep your dreams and visions grounded

It took a while but then I found it

No one inspired you in time

So you left your love behind

In a world that can't discourage one who's young and full of courage

You said you'd start at the bottom

But instead you start at the top

Be careful what you wish for

On your lap it just might drop

It's a lonely life at the bottom

It can be lonely too at the top

Make sure your heart is singing

Right until the day it stops

They all say dream

But what they mean is be specific or obscene

It's time to find some time to fail at work to makes you most happy

Sometimes you concentrate on lovers

To forget everything else

Sometimes you hate each other to forget you hate yourself

So if you're sideways

And if you wanna go my way

Before a meteor shower

Decides that you should be devoured

Whether you're locked up in the tower

Or if you charge them by the hour

Tell me you'll always be a flower

Forget the aftertaste of life got sour

Will you finish what you started?

Before you celebrate with a cigarette

Remember things you disregarded

Communicate with the departed

Prepare to always be astounded

Believe in things you thought weren't founded

Don't keep those dreams and visions grounded

It took a while but now I found it