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Innocence and Opiates

from Wild at Heart by Zenobia Dolli

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If you were real I'd pull your hair
to make sure you were really there.
And if you jumped then I would know
that I should never let you go.
But you're not here.
And soon enough you'll dissappear
Just like the mermaid and the deer
who bought a house in Canada and sent for me to clean it once a year
instructions always very clear
"Scrub the cushions with the beer
and dust the china with the bullets, the tomatoes hate the afterlife"

If this were real that'd be true art.
I'd never doubt your loving heart.
I'd give you kisses all the time
and be so happy you were mine.
But still I know.
You're just a player in a show
co-starring Princess Giant Crow
and featuring the fabulous sensational invisible Margot,
a girl I've seen but do not know,
from whom I run but very slow.
A talkie -- produced by my subconscious, directed by my anxieties.

dee da dee doddlee deedlee da dee doddlee deedlee da dee doddlee deedlee da dee doddlee

Real life is full of disappointments.
I take refuge in our appointments.
Always surprised when they do happen
Without sub-drama overlappin'
turning the page
morphing submission into rage
morphing my fingers into sage
morphing your smiling face into a contract I can no longer engage
Into a war that I must wage
Into a clown face in a cage barking
Reminding me of when a dog bit me in 1927

Real life is never as much fun
as when we're laughing in the sun,
Surfing the waters of some land
where two moons float across the sand,
Or when you say
in your dreamboat handsome way
that you are always here to stay,
that if I charged a million dollars simply for one kiss then you would pay
that I'm as pretty as the day
a flower fell from heaven's bay
and grew from beneath the waters to sprout innocence and opiates.

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from Wild at Heart, track released August 3, 2009

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