The Hanging Garden

The animal runs slow across me I'm so tired I can only fall The black is dripping In the hanging garden Please don't speak Blood in my ears and eyes like ice Don't move Why won't I move Why do I pretend We're made of everyone else I see you in my room I think of your friend The ordinary chokes me When no one cares Empty men You're so useless Choking under covers Stifled like a dead man Happy with the empty men In a small room Lash my face with glass Era away from the animals Still no closer Cursing my fingers like ribbon Like an animal swelling in sickness Sallow child, frustration and hatred Cutting my hair Like cutting life with clean hands Touching me A brother lies in shapes of angels Keep her away from my face Series Pictures of madmen color the walls It's all a waste of time Everything jumps once And I fall into the walls Covered like a madman choking Choking like an empty man Swaying out of time to be real again I think I should finish soon I think I should end Magic and dreams and the end of the world Choking on the covers That stifle a dead man Happy empty man Sit in a small room Lash my face and the animals sing Please don't speak in the hanging garden Every night in the hanging garden The animals drip in the hanging garden The animals drip at the side of the road The animals drip at the side of the road In the hanging garden In the hanging garden