Aloe Vera

Hung like wedding veils from her home

Those white curtains in her windows

Move like a breeze on an un-kept lawn

To be on the other side as the one I'm on

She talks like water in a gas tank

Crawls on walls and smells like rain

If she's ever said too much, I

Wasn't there or I hadn't had enough

Well April comes with hearts in mind

She's got a love and I still ain't found mine

But there's a corner store where I spend some time

And all the men there keep their eyes dry

They called the girls in summer skirts on cruiser bikes

Like they were praying to God out of spite

But it ain't a girl's fault, just some fault those men

That make her the muse to their bitterness

So when I pass the home of the one I think of

And go down where my thoughts come from

I don't wish her any wrong

I'm just not wishing much good to that one she loves

See when she wakes up in her morning bliss

I hope his lips are just too chapped to kiss

And there's an ingrown hair and arthritis in his wrists

And his eyes are glued shut by mucus

When the sunlight kisses her warm skin

Hope it directs its attention to burning him

Though I hate to give her reason to smear aloe vera, all over

Imagine all that aloe vera just getting smeared across him

All over Vera, that's aloe vera, all over his skin so crisp

As long as bikes get stolen by neighborhood kids

I'll be around to purchase them

Just as long as you've got eyes

I'll be doing my best to catch them with mine

If I get a notion just to pass

Something on I'll pass that glass

And those curtain windows, have them

Hold the thorns and you can keep the flower

My friend drove his motorcycle in the air

His body went down and his soul stayed up there

Now he's rearranging all the clouds like

Letters on a marquis till the sun comes out

Rearranging all those clouds like

Letters on a marquis till the sun comes out