my name is time and I’m wearing your clothes they fit pretty well how nobody knows the glove in your mind ain’t the glove on your hand when you get that straight that’s when you’ll understand those people downtown they all wear coats and ties and I have seen papers with words in their eyes they step on hot concrete in leather so thin the blood in their legs boils like mercury my friend a lover will pull you right up along side you’ll wallow in tears or be hollow with pride and if you start walking you might make the door but if you should tarry you’ll leave nevermore those people downtown they all wear coats and ties and I have seen papers with words in their eyes they step on hot concrete in leather so thin the blood in their legs boils like mercury my friend the river is dry and the riverbed is wide a bridge of plain steel connects either side should you cross over just keep this in mind I’m wearing your clothes and my name is time those people downtown they all wear coats and ties and I have seen papers with words in their eyes they step on hot concrete in leather so thin the blood in their legs boils like mercury my friend Copyright Hills Snyder, 1999 |