Asphodel

[Verse 1]

A junky on Leavenworth said

Below the Transamerica Pyramid

There's a tunnel to the underworld

She was just that type of girl

To crawl through demonic steam

Through a dead dog's mouth

A flower grows in the dark

That's what she's all about

[Verse 2]

Everything I thought I threw away

Come back around to me someday

Footsteps are audible after the grasses cease

The oak is alive by what is buried underneath

A flower grows in the dark

Near the land of dreams

But don't ask me how I know

Don't ask mе what it means

[Verse 3]

Facing the sun, blind to your shade

Thе darkened spot where our bodies once laid

Upon the flame and left a burn

There's only molecules in the urn

Don't confine or define me

I'm not your experiment

And I mean everything I say

Or something not unlike it

[Verse 4]

To the vanished one I lost

Tape recorder turning beneath the frost

Flower in the gutter, forgotten

Consecrated with this crop of cotton

I'd recognize your lowdown ways

Even if you change your form

I need my Beltane baby

To keep my body warm