By Misti Velvet Rainwater
Date: 14 August 2000
Frankenkiss
oh, to be your shaman
and absorb all
your pain
[No, I should absorb yours, sweetheart...]
[You've got enough pain for ten people.]
I won't leave you
I won't go downstairs and get online
I can't be here in this bed
with you asleep and me awake
I need music
oh, god, I need music
I need "I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)"
I need "You're My Thrill"
I need "All the Way"
I need "The Crystal Ship"
I need "Get it While You Can"
...and cigarettes to scare the voices away
and Jack Daniels to keep the terror at bay
I don't need another tornado nightmare
I don't want to dream of the friends I've lost
cures cost too much
but the disease is driving me dizzy
but I won't leave this bed
you can't wake up alone and think for one second
that I don't care
we share a kiss
and I make sound effects
I'm a motorcycle zooming by
and you tell me that's not what a kiss
is supposed to be
I know this
I know this
but someday maybe you'll find a girl
who only kisses you the right way
and you will cry
because even when I'm madder than a hatter
and more lost than Alice
and more morose than the Mock Turtle
and more childish than Tweedle Dee
and more arrogant than the unicorn
...I'm the girl who matters most.
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