My Dark Life

She says, nobody wants to believe You're the same as everyone What makes makes me unique My dark life There was a kink in the world Sent that statue tumbling An invitation east So we can watch it all crumbling She came on like a light And so softly she spoke You don't know, you don't know about My dark life And you think you're a guest You're a tourist at best Peering into the corners of My dark life Now that you, you tear, your dreams From consumptive, ballerinas She'll stand on tiptoe for you In a gray and tattered tutu She stay's where, the is 'Cause of voyeurs like these With an accusative look that says My dark life Rubber men await you there In each beguiling alley to shake you And to pierce you and remind you of My dark life Enter the pious elite In their preening finery And bang the tambourine They're dining on rice paper scenery See how the villain attracts Envious glances from everyone She's waitressing by day It doesn't bring in, much money now And as strong concealed, arms Set off bells and alarms In the strangest locations of My dark life But the fantasies slipped As he tipped her in cigarettes She tries to smile very graciously When she wants to kill him Now the victory is sweet You get down upon your knees It's the perfect position For kissing west on leather So they came from ugly Texas And from nameless, Tennessee From peculiar, Missouri And from places closer to me All the cream of heartless England Cheer the carnival is over And remnants of red army bandsmen Played, "America The Beautiful"