I ride silent in the cab
smoke a Camel Filter
two milligrams of Ativan dissolve
on my tongue in this foreign city
like the Holy Eucharist of my
Catholic childhood, and I pray
in tears, that I am absolved.
Drugs work fast. We are hardly
to the airport when I have seen
the Holy City
of Byzantium, only its pilgrim
come to beg redemption
I can never have.
Here is the Mecca of Absolution
yet still I suck this bitterness in my mouth
wanting so much more
than you had to give.
smoke a Camel Filter
two milligrams of Ativan dissolve
on my tongue in this foreign city
like the Holy Eucharist of my
Catholic childhood, and I pray
in tears, that I am absolved.
Drugs work fast. We are hardly
to the airport when I have seen
the Holy City
of Byzantium, only its pilgrim
come to beg redemption
I can never have.
Here is the Mecca of Absolution
yet still I suck this bitterness in my mouth
wanting so much more
than you had to give.
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Getting a package ready to send to you!
[Edited on Mar 30, 2003]
Fish are jumpin', and the cotton is high.
Oh yo' daddy's rich and yo' ma is good lookin',
So hush, little baby, don' yo' cry.
Was just listening to Billie Holiday sing that this morning..her voice gives me goose bumps..
Janis joplin did a decent version of it too..