The Colourless Man

Balls deep inside the snake of Eden The bugs beneath my skin roam free I split the wound within the skyline And drain the Tigris to the sea Yeah, Gabriel won't touch his horn Unless he gets a call from me And each time you feel the spit slip through you Or heave a sigh of disbelief I pull back a bead on my abacus And I smile for my coming relief I watched the future sprawl toward you Driving drunk to Bethlehem I sold Jael her first vibrator And smuggled E for David's men I sowed the seeds of all you are And I have forgotten what it meant And I see you soused in all your comfort I hear your aching groan of peace So I stifle a laugh of gratitude Cause I know we will soon be released Did you know I don't recognize anyone? Did you know I'm inherently wrong? Did you know I am going home Before very long? And oh, did you know you could save yourself And still leave this world unloved? I thought that was your working hypothesis I thought we had agreed on that much I thought that's why you'd made peace with the end To be free from the start To be hidden and hungered for To be someone apart, which you aren't Did you know how I dreamt for so long of coiling myself Like a venomous snake in your bed? Just to wound something worthy, to tarnish a veil But never again