6.Explosion Sounds
So get up and count your teeth ／ and make love on the loan shark
sheets ／ where your girl got passed around ／ to help wash down
the post-war doubt. ／ Or have you lost your taste for it？ ／
Those bloodlust boys and girls don't quit, ／ so there's a crowd
under your clothes, ／ between you both and you can't get close.
／／ So you sleep and she drinks, ／ and you drink and she sleeps,
／ and you blink and she blinks ／ well, God, ain't love a
fucked-up thing？ ／／ When you choke on your riot tongue ／ and
cheap cologne in the vulgar sun, ／ you'll write it off and lay
in bed ／ with minefield dread and words to shred, ／ but now you
know your friends are rats, ／ and now you drink with baseball
bats, ／ and goddamn, you still want her mouth ／ to drown you out
with explosion sounds. ／／ But you sleep and she drinks, ／ and
you drink and she sleeps, ／ and you blink and she blinks ／
well, God, ain't love a fucked-up thing？ ／／ But I love the great
obscene, ／ I love the strip club meat, I love the trophy heat, ／
and I know I'll miss your teeth, ／ but God, I love the fucked-up
things. ／／ So if it takes one more time to give this up, ／ then
I'll wait one more night to give you up, ／ but now it seems like
we both like the noose tight ／ and you've got a cutthroat mind ／
and we both like the noose tight, ／ and we both got the rope and
we both got the time. ／／ But I sleep and you drink, ／ and I
drink and you sleep, ／ and I blink and you blink ／ well, that
is the truly fucked-up thing. ／／ 'Cause we are the great
obscene, ／ and all those girls are cheap, those boys just can't
compete. ／ In our hell, the drinks are free, ／ and we are the
greatest fucked-up things. ／／ So come on, let's barricade the
doors. ／ Yeah, come on, fuck all those rookie whores. ／ Yeah,
come on, let's have a civil war, ／ only stop to call the dealer
and the liquor store. ／ Yeah, come on, let's see what veins are
for. ／ Yeah, come on, let's fuck with hell some more. ／ Yeah,
come on, we'll kill each other, sure, ／ but we won't die alone
and we won't die bored.
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