D-Minor

A borrowed fern with a cigarette burn And a pawn shop ring in her hand At the Idaho courts to affirm our divorce Before the marriage began In a celery boat singing triangle notes To a horn from the military band The spectreworks care of Pepper & Dircks’ Bargain Ghost and Haunted Man We awkwardly shielded the curious eyes Of innocent pines from the forest floor From the frying pan of a celibate man To the fires of the premature Who could ask for nothing more? We're an unshrunk patch on a tear of the edge We're an unshrunk patch on a tear of the edge We're a campaign badge, the short-lived match Of an unshrunk patch in the bellow's edge On the iron lungs of our language A by-now acquired a fern with a cigarette burn In a basket with a (rectangle) note on the bedroom floor: They repaired my fence, those bastards I can't go back home no more Save by a roundabout way, unto each day Is sufficient misfortune thereof With which to spend in proportion to your modest pay While shopping around for a word like 'love.' --With obedient trust as a babe in the womb And impeccably chaste as a priest in the tomb With a Deadwood map and a dynamite hat I'll come back to Idaho soon Harmless as a Danish cartoon This is not the first time This is not the first time G-d has died This is not the first time This is not the first time G-d has died This is not the first time capitalized three lettered sound has died This is not the first time This is not the first time Won't you help me get by? Will you help me get by? Won't you help me get by? Will you help me get by? Won't you help me get by? Will you help me get by?