I laid down next to a proverbial broken heart Then lifted up my literal drinking glass And said, "Here's to an okay start." You'd brought me in from the rain But like the rain stays on the grass Long after the storms have passed My toughest skin was now dry But I was soaked to the bones It was all I could do to hold on Perhaps I should've done more I laid a hand on my chest The pulse was not there Thus, I laid down again Next to a broken heart And like an old man In his dying moment I could only tell myself, "Here's to an okay start." ---------------------------------------------- The sun sets one more time, and in my mind I can find Memories sketched from memory, not quite so kind A busted lip shooting words from a broken hip No, I can't sleep with the echo of drip drip drip Someone forgot to turn off the faucet of despair It drains into nothing, but never stops coming Like the words of an invisible man Is his reflection all that I am? What did you do when they empowered New York? Did you tell your children it was a misguided stork? Delivering the sons of God to their rightful owner, Or that this was the act of the ultimate blood donor. Now it seems all the king's bitches and all the king's men Have gone and put Humpty Dumpty back together again And now the whole world has an egg on its face She comes up to me asking for the time I say I'll show her the time of her life That morning, I got her pregnant By noon, we were both breathless By evening, we were feeling restless By midnight, I took everything she had When I left, she was thanking me
