take gives in mistake
following the leader
parades heartache

all that shit they can't teach you in art school
just looks at you and marvels
genie bottled promise

rubbed extra gentle
tomorrow might not end in nightfall
careful blows candles quick

because what's thrown up went down wrong
right...?
sick fights against medicine...man

who swallows not her cure...?
stranger fruits servant
saunters by selling bad goods cheap

profiting from thirst for waters edge
deep well wedged between need and dreams
take...

gives in mistake
following leaders
parade of heartache

the preacher practiced sermons
to backseat of a patrol cars audience
shackles put upon for peeping Tom

under God dammed arrest