Surely none of this can be
the murder mystery
the minstrel that lost control
what did your body tell you about your soul?
The needle rising like a steeple
I love the way you touch people
I can't keep
all the things you gave me
You can't save me
you couldn't even save yourself
but I couldn't help wanting to know
what lay behind
Prisoner of pleasure
was your neuron flash trash or treasure?
in the final measure
in the last test of your flesh
the knife just inches in your chest
the knife just inches in your chest
I always hear it in blue
the misty spirit of you
in music that pulls me though
like wet clothes through an old mangle
by the time I heard your song
you were already gone
it seems so wrong
but so long
so long
Prisoner of pleasure
was your neuron flash trash or treasure?
in the final measure
in the last test of your flesh
the knife just inches in your chest
the knife just inches in your chest
In a dream
In a dream
bent double and I don't know why
you flourish
a origami butterfly
folded from a suicide note you never wrote
it flutters off soft
over the roads you traveled
and all the frowns
and scowls
and bleak grimaces
that over took the only face you had
to carry you through this place
You moved your fingers like a little bird
You moved your fingers like a little bird
Prisoner of pleasure
was your neuron flash trash or treasure?
in the final measure
in the last test of your flesh
the knife just inches in your chest
the knife just inches in your chest
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