Night People Lyrics

biblical sky speckled with flame, do you hold your mother's eyes from wetting the earth?
from weeping for those who reward fame to absolutes of war?
or for heroic myths provided for children married into ferocity?
they instead witness themselves

and the black sand of your body slipped through...

I found myself at your side

I spied along the concrete canvas, a woman-her eyes brimming with vacancy
and bear hugging barbiturates,
her head rolled from faint shoulders and skipped three times
each thud sprouting a fountain of splashing gold