Too Much

Woke up scared in the middle of the night

and jump-sprung bolt upright.

Tried to rise from the sweat of the bed,

but fell back into my head.

The lynch mob had assembled

the sun began to set.

I got too much to remember

and too much to forget.

Came up hard in an ugly machine,

my late, late, show's extreme.

Lakes of amber, venoms of red

can't douse these coals I tread.

The bridge was lost to vandals

the tide sucked off the dead.

I got too much to remember,

got too much on my head.

The smokin' gun of justice

barks off a mindless debt,

I got too much to remember

and too much to forget.