Last Ticket to Hades

It’s getting too dangerous

living the way that you do...

The cards are piled against you,

and there’s figures in the dark

that would like

nothing better then

to have their way

with an arrogant young chippy...

Maybe you could give ’em some lip,

and wriggle under the blade

just in time to make it home for

Jeopardy...

Maybe not...

Wonder what the head-lines will say

when the truth comes out,

and turns the night into day...

You were always a brave kid,

though the things that you did

don’t amount to fuck all

when the chill makes his call,

and the killer in red comes alive

in your head...

Tell me how does it feel

when the water dries up,

and your last bag is flushed

when you’d poured your last dime?...

Now you wear a black hood,

and the con turns it’s head

like a snake in the dark

that you know will embark

on your ripe supple flesh...

...Yes, it’s time to invest

in a new pair of shoes...

watch the sand running thin.

01-06-20

Slack i Selassie