Album: Hot Damn! (2003)

Romeo A Go-go

Tonight I'm coming home in a coma if it fucking kills me. Listless but relieved,
beaming like a newborn hostage. Orphaned by an ambulance. I got this new black eye
just for you. Your hopeless romantic now hopelessly rheumatic. Poets grinding teeth
to powder. All my vowels are getting lost in the gauze. Misinterpret courting for
the cursing of a drooling fool. Here's to cheap sex and codeine in a hospital bed.
And maybe I'd object, if I felt at all alive. Everybody is dying to lay down with
you. I got the order all wrong. I must have bumped my head. Maybe I should quiet
down. Don't bet on another black out, I'll be all right. There's an army at my
window waiting to lose this fight. I'm the king of this all night clinic. The
fucking champion. Tonight we'll feast like royalty in traction, happy and
meticulous. There's a delicate love song in this, kicked out and dripping in verse.
Go get your gun because God won't show. He sent a poet instead. The Don Quixote of
the ICU. Quite impressive for a cripple. Munchausen by proxy of a muse. Tempt not a
desperate man. This split lip is for you. I traded it for an outdated tooth.