A Portrait of the Trequartista as a Young Man

Now is time to take recourse, to drag my bones from 'neath his corpse

Retract the blade within his heart, inscribe our initials in the bark

Of every tree in every woods. In ink red blood, can you imagine?

While wearing his head as a hood. I'd take life for a crime of passion

Lies told

Darling, if I had the choice, I'd excavate his throat of voice

and corrugate his vocal chords to play a tune to please the Lord.

Make him recite this murder ballad, a sombre tune told by a bore

Pump blood around the limp and pallid, harmonising as you snored.

Lies told

One day when I'm older, I'll write it all down

A portrait of the trequartista as a young man

We all know we're gonna die

We're a speck of dust in a bad God's eye

He rubs us clean, but love is blind

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