North To Nothing

i took to faces shooting stills and places

i took nudes of our youngest boy

I took two years to take his name over

i beat blank with blank's toy

i'd sing your praises to the devil's face

but even fire couldn't dry you out

you wouldn't know a good shot if you drank one

Then throws up throws punches throws everybody out

shut up and while we're on the subject

of endless me and the what's i've done

i didn't raise my boy to be your snapshot toy

not for you, not my son

And as he made his point, he opened up my eye:

We're off and running

North to Nothing, yeah

I would not miss him

as perfect as he ****

bet bottom dollar said as night day follows

ain't a thought you can call your own

just to vary someone's variation

to reshow what's been shown

(_Aaaah_)

a call to mothers and my fast ex-lovers

had the boys packing out by ten

we moved in with earl and his own two girls

i took photographs of spirograph--oh let's begin again

but then earl kept having nightmares

about being tamed by dogs and fence

and when the agents came and asked for him by name

well those dreams they made sense

Just when I'm used to him he has to go bye-bye...

We're off and running

North to Nothing, yeah

I don't miss him

as perfect as he ****

When dark came

When dark came

When dark came

When dark came

[Just when I'm used to him, he has to go bye-bye]

And i wrote and i've called you for wednesdays now

that's what the note tacked on to earl's door said

and i hard cried my way down the hall

i'll go south, i'll go south more ways than one

I'll probably need some cash to get started and so

i sold your pictures that won

love, Ann

(ps. i understand your man friend has turned up missing)

We're off and running

North to Nothing, yeah

I would not miss him

as perfect as he ****

And then dark came

And then dark came

And then dark came

And then dark came