Old 23rd - “Heartbreaker”
I don’t wanna be the man that you set your sights on
The one you wrap around like a python
I don’t wanna be the one
Who falls apart once the time has come
For you to leave and find a new love
You’re a heartbreaker, baby, but you’ll never break mine
I’ve seen it happen too many times
You spin your web of misery
Oh, you ain’t gettin’ meI don’t know how this happened but I’m thinkin’
I’ve fallen in love if I ain’t mistaken
But now you’re saying that you’re bored
And you’re gonna walk out that door
Please don’t leave and find a new love
You’re a heartbreaker, baby, and you’re gonna break mine
Even though I’ve seen it too many times
You spin your web of misery
Oh, you got me
I don’t know what to say to make you come back
I feel so sore I think I need an ice pack
Baby please give me one more chance
Don’t walk out on our romance
But you’ve already left and found a new love
You’re a heartbreaker, baby, and you just broke mine
Even though I’ve seen it a million times
I fell in your web of misery
Oh, come back to me
Some people
just can’t stay still.
It’s like a penny, dropped
from a skyscraper,
boring a hole in the earth,
tunneling its way home.
The stories are all that remain now…
that one basement show…
that one drunken fight at the Tesco…
that one party where the cops showed up…
They grow with each retelling,
each time, moving a little
further from reality,
but somehow closer to the truth.
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Sometimes being
an ice cube
has its advantages.
At long last,
Is this what the Left
has become-
mutual funds
and motor clubs?
one (1) one slice blueberry pie, cold
two (2) cups coffee,
with so much cream
that it tastes like a goddamn
milkshake
one (1) cigarette, menthol
eventually, in
an unguarded moment,
your accent
will bubble up
to the surface,
& your lazily
drawled diphthongs
will expose you
for what you is.
brillo pad and a gas station rose
you know by now how this story goes
So we’ll keep
shooting up ,
stretching out our arms,
clawing at immortality
until we find
the philosopher’s stone
is just a moon rock.
