dark, smoke-filled room colored lights digital deluxe trying to fill that hole radar love and bad blood tube socks, multicolored amazed at the sight of your own tongue scarves billowing warm, leathery perfume we know we're not in an audrey hepburn movie headache that's not even there paint peeling off the walls smell of sweat and loneliness ink-stained hands of a poet these fragile pieces broken glass and paper flowers throat so dry the music makes you cry sipping something you arent sure what it is anymore breathing air long-stale do you know which end is up the light at the end of the tunnel went out a long time ago do you remember when it all went downhill? spinning room circles and flowers wall tile moving, sliding into the floor trying to crawl into something you cannot see or hear you can only taste and feel heavy metal and gravel dust bleeding lips, chapped, unkissed you're on top of the world "for a little while" dont cry when you fall