Rags (Second Amendment)

Everything is rags

And there's nobody to blame but me

And it would be so easy

If there was no one to hurt but me

But now everything that I do

Coming out of me

Will just tear through you

In and out of you

Up and down your life

Like a curse

So that

When the sun bursts

When the rain falls

When the wind blows

I rip through your heart

On a horse called nightmare

Bucking and spitting

I ride to your house

In the home of bluebeard

Blood flows as red as any flag

Death cries victory is mine

Laughter echoes

And death just claps his hands

And then time stands still castles fall

Lightning strikes the tower announcing chaos

Sunday's child scales the walls

Of a paradise then dives into darkness

A fool playing God

With one foot in Eden

One foot in hell

And blindness in his brain

And fever in his eyes

Lies on his tongue

Still saying

This is just a dream

But I will

Burn me

Right out of this place

I will lay you down to sleep

So when you wake

I'll be gone and you

Will remember

Nothing

You

Will remember