Recent Songs: Old Hand

Old Hand


My soul is a basement echo
My soul is a broken chord
My soul is a tin can refrain
Holding up the dead air like a pillar of smoke

I know time’s catching up with me
I know I ain’t got no time
Fire with fire is a yarn with one ending
Selling sand in the desert was the arrow love primed

My heart beat game and baited
Now it’s fanged, so woe betide
My heart is a bedpan heroine
Squandering her beauty in a nunnery of guise

I know time’s catching up with me
I know what can never be mine
Regale my sins into the bottom of a bottle
The regalia of a pariah forever affined  

My mind is a tree of spiders
My mind’s an old witch hunter
A baboon in a maze of mirrors
Old hand, you’ve seen my mind is a horrid lover

But my soul is a basement echo
My soul is a broken chord
Strumming on to a tin can refrain
Calling up to heaven for a crescendo revoked

I know time’s catching up with me
I know I ain’t got no time
Fire with fire is a yarn with one ending
Selling sand in the desert was the arrow love primed

I know time’s catching up with me
I know I ain’t got no time
Fire with fire is a yarn with one ending
Selling sand in the desert was the carol fate twined


April 28, 2015