Chocolate Girl

[Verse 1]

When sight goes

I'll lead you around the excavation

Where grass grows

And remnants of you in implication

Your breath sounds

Inhaling a porch, in time it's frozen

In blue gowns

You trace along the house which you had chosen

While holding tightly

All sound is dead so sing in time and lie

When life meets child, your only plight, you'll lie

When ceilings smile, we'll sleep awhile and lie

I'll take you for walks among the patients

[Verse 2]

She had a pretty dad

But she was growing out of play-school

Still she could kick and scream and play until she wanted to

My little chocolate girl

Her brother barely out of high school

Lived in a place where he could scream until he wanted to

No fuzzy tabby cat

And she could bury him in apples

And curl around a roll of cotton 'til she wanted to

[Verse 3]

But still she had to speak loud

'Cause hearing isn't high among the widows

She eats in

And picks her Sunday flowers from the garbage

And cries late

Still drinking with the boys from Argentina

And prays long

In hopes of something better for the children

And holding tightly

All sound is dead so sing in time and lie

When life meets child, your only plight, you'll lie

When ceilings smile, we'll sleep awhile and lie

I'll take you for walks among the patients

[Verse 4]

She met a pretty boy

And they would dance between their elders

And she would cream until the wine she bought had settled in

My little chocolate girl

She used to love the stars from England

She slept on records and hung marble jewelry from her skin

Her colors matched the room

And she would twirl around the curtains

She had a hand to hold her chin up when her friends let down

The kid across the street

Would peek around when she was changing

And he would wait and she would tell her friends about the boy

Her mother died at home

She had saliva in her pockets

She gave a groan when her last days had finally gave the date

[Bridge]

So goodbye, chocolate girl

Oh won't you lick a name?

[Outro]

And put your lanterns on across the maze

So I won't feast on folly

You better love the rain, who brought the strings in, dear

And who will pop the drain 'cause I can't see you

I'll open up my brain again

So put your lanterns on across the maze

So I won't feast on folly

You better love the rain, who brought the strings in, dear

And who will pop the drain 'cause I can't see you

I'll open up my brain again

So put your lanterns on across the maze

So I won't feast on folly

You better love the rain, who brought the strings in, dear

And who will pop the drain 'cause I can't see you

I'll open up my brain again

So put your lanterns on across the maze

So I won't feast on folly

You better love the rain, who brought the strings in, dear

And who will pop the drain 'cause I can't see you

I'll open up my brain again

So put your lanterns on across the maze

So I won't feast on folly

You better love the rain, who brought the strings in, dear

And who will pop the drain 'cause I can't see you

I'll open up my brain again

And put your lanterns on across the maze

So I won't feast on folly

You better love the rain, who brought the strings in, dear

And who will pop the drain 'cause I can't see you

I'll open up my brain again...