schmaltz waltz (2009)

the love and the sadness did a dance tonight

there weren't no music didn't break out in fights



thoughts most precious, cast before swine

logged by foes, rest by a pint of white whine



why o why are our heads so thick?

with guts of feelings spanglin' the dick?



why o why is my folks so dumb?

sweetsour intricacies of coming undone.



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my friends are perfect i think that they know

the world is pure butter 2% yellow snow


my heartache is contagious and mostly benign

just suture my memory on some dotted line



a guy stabs his heart in writing a song

to find the mercy of wanderin' on


the sadness and the loved duked it out all night

there ain't no grammar in the language of slights