Steel-Eyed Vampires of Love

Cross-posted from an old Bigger Boat post. Worth the re-post (for me, at least). 

No more mirages.

When you lead me to the cool water and bathe my heated nape with it, then we can talk.  Just try me.




Thank you for this bitter knowledge
Guardian angels who left me stranded
It was worth it, feeling abandoned
Makes one hardened, but
What has happened to love?

You've got me writing lyrics on postcards
Then in the evenings looking at stars
But the brightest of the planets is Mars
What has happened to love?

So I will opt for the big white limo
Vanity fairgrounds and rebel angels
You can't be trusted with feathers so hollow
Heaven's invention, steel-eyed vampires of love

You see over me
I'll never know
What you've shown to other eyes

Go or go ahead
And surprise me
Say you've lead the way to a mirage
Go or go ahead
And just try me

Nowhere's now here smelling of junipers
Fell off a hay bale, I'm over the rainbow
But oh, Medusa, kiss me and crucify
This unholy notion of the mythic powers of love

Look in her eyes, look in her eyes
Forget about the ones that are crying
Look in her eyes, look in her eyes
Forget about the ones that are crying

Go or go ahead
And surprise me
Go or go ahead
And just try me