29 Palms

Broken like a mirror

With pieces of you in me

Reflected light fissures

Trial of the century

They stand at the forefront

Frothing and philistine

Before the sun sets

You’ll forget you were fashion in Spring

You can only be hurt by what you love

Life after death’s a modern cause

Before the sun sets, you’ll die with your debts

When they send bombs over 29 Palms… bombs

She was Gaia at the door

I wanted to see how we’d changed

The walls were all bare, but for holes

Where my paintings should hang

A ruin of paper marked no longer at this address

We haven’t done much she said

Aware of the emptiness

You can only be hurt by what you love

Life after death’s a modern cause

Before the sun sets you’ll die with your debts

Have you sinned? bombs over 29 Palms… bombs

Home is a place you can never go back when you leave

Gaia’s tending the flowers while you’re out pulling the weeds

You can fly back to town and hang out like a ghost in a sheet

But what is the point when you can no longer be seen

You can only be hurt by what you love

Life after death’s a modern cause

Before the sun sets you’ll be smoking again

When they send bombs over 29 Palms… bombs

You’ll know which one to arrest when they greet them with a kiss…