Ideal Home

He come looking for a promise Chileno huyendo From a narrow land to a wide one In search of an ideal home New York was a wedding table Baby's cradle, bedtime song But the snow came deep and the sun did sleep For a night and a day too long They bought the ring at Tiffany's But they left their breakfast cold Rowed to sea on the Queen Mary Left the new world for the old And it was there at the exhibition Beneath the weight of Kensington He strayed in the gaze of Olympia And he answered Olympia's drum Orphic he left them Every vow undone And he never chanced a backward glance At an absent father's son At his namesake, nature's saint he never did dare to know He never chanced a backward glance At the ghost of an ideal home But my dad grew tall too Came the day when he heard the call Of Brooklyn beach and the city streets Where his long long legs did crawl Joy Division, New Order Some are born for the other side My daddy ran from the dark of addiction Crossed the pond for the second time New York was a Warhol silkscreen With a Haring redesign My daddy script methadone for Joe Ramone On the streets of the Lower East Side And just like his father before him A husband kissed a bride And her vows were wreathed in legalese His were poetry just like mine Just like mine Poetry just like mine Now he's down at the feet of the Queen Mary With the wife and the twins in tow He'll go the way of his namesake In search of an ideal home