Malefic Dowery

Love is not a debtor's prison

You don't have to serve a sentence

To pay back what you've been given

Now I live in fear of your schizophrenic genius

It's a tempestuous despot

That I can't seem to propitiate

Now I feel you're provoking me with your fidelity

That your loyalty and affections

Are somehow a vulpine act of hostility

Now we're a bore, we're afternoon TV

This thing our minds are screaming to defy

How can I bury this rebellion

While proving that I'm, you know, still your rock 'n' roll ally?

Once more I turn to my crutch for counsel, and it won't disappoint me

I know it's the shadow cast by what's looming in the profane

And not the thing in itself that engenders fear

I was dreaming of the hunt

You clapped your hands sharply twice to wake me up

Oh, darkness was gripping the sky

I knew I could still be your rock 'n' roll ally