First to Know
When the kids have left their messes
In the hall outside your door,
And there's dealers, and new
Stealers that you've never seen before...
When the cat keeps you up hacking...
All into the break of day...
And you feel that you've been summoned
By the serpents to go play...
Well they told you there'd be mishaps,
There'd be fires left and right...
The suspects they are legion, baby,
This could take all night...
Well they told you there'd be spin outs;
There'd be wrecks all down the road,
And yet still you sit there weeping
Like you weren't the first to know...
First to know...
When there's something that won't
Sit right, like a Cod with bones intact...
When your boss claims there's no money,
Tho through floorboards hear him laugh...
You've been selling yourself daily, now
Each new sale a pound of flesh...
Now it's either join or vanish 'fore you
Auction your last breath...
Well they told you there'd be mishaps,
There'd be fires left and right...
The suspects they are legion, baby,
This could take all night...
Well they told you there'd be spin outs;
There'd be wrecks all down the road,
And yet you sit there weeping
Like you weren't the first to know...
First to know...
Caught upturning gemstones...
Seems those places you once hid
Have now dried up like that river
Where you smoked and told your fibs...
It was there you summoned Devils,
And persuaded stars to fall...
Making mountains out of stink bugs
Whether they was big or small..
Well they told you there'd be mishaps,
There'd be fires left and right...
The suspects they are legion, baby,
This could take all night...
Well they told you there'd be spin outs;
There'd be wrecks all down the road,
And yet you sit there weeping
Like you weren't the first to know...
First to know...
1/19/24
Bunny Villaire
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