Blues in Red

Down by the Bowery

There by the window you’ve been lighting forest fires.

Chilled by the howling

Moves on the river

And it flows your way

Blues in Red.

I can’t remember

Names that it carried, like a mother to a child

Still I can’t shake this

Shameful and blameless

And you wash away

Last night's Blues in Red

I know, you won’t

Help me navigate the longest time

So we cut away and dance tonight

But we won’t be back again.

Sun blind and thirsty and my bones ache to the work

This change in my pocket rattles to the devils lurch

Can’t seem to shake him

I hear him tinker

And it’s way down low

Unwholesome lullabies

I know you won’t

Help me navigate the longest time

So we cut away and dance tonight

I will say divine

That you won’t be back again.

And when the sun hits my

Beating lips

Sorrow’s only vice is this, warming sip.

Nothing is sweeter than

Sulfur and ether but I’m coughing up a lung

Just to say that you have won.

So we cut away and dance tonight

Help me navigate the longest time

I will say divine

That you won’t be back again.