The Broken Song of the Straw Man
Lanterns full of hollow
Thrown across the streets
As the blind partition swallows
The blood rung out of sheets
The evening rain spit down
Ferments my stolen wine
And I paint the alleys of the town
As I reclaim what's mine
I swim across a sea of black
The shadows never seen
The woman hung across the rack
My Yiddish Minstrel Queen
Watch, she dances in reverse
And throw your gypsy token
She speaks in tongues and lifted verse
And my mind is shattered; broken
I mock the dead, I scoff at threats
The clock strikes down the living
If you speak to me, pay off your debts
I am not all that forgiving.
Thrown across the streets
As the blind partition swallows
The blood rung out of sheets
The evening rain spit down
Ferments my stolen wine
And I paint the alleys of the town
As I reclaim what's mine
I swim across a sea of black
The shadows never seen
The woman hung across the rack
My Yiddish Minstrel Queen
Watch, she dances in reverse
And throw your gypsy token
She speaks in tongues and lifted verse
And my mind is shattered; broken
I mock the dead, I scoff at threats
The clock strikes down the living
If you speak to me, pay off your debts
I am not all that forgiving.