Last Long Laugh

I was a teenage porcupine

A bed of nails running down my spine

A trail of tears up a hill of beans

A last long laugh at the edge of dreams

Nobody told you about the curves

The battered brains and the busted nerves

But you can't let the bastards bring you down

A last long laugh at the edge of sound

Last long laugh at the edge of sound

How many times around the sun ’til you drop your leaves & say you're done?

To be such a houseplant is no crime

A last long laugh at the edge of time

Last long laugh at the edge of time

Need I remind you about the end -

The gaping void just around the bend?

But why would I waste one single breath?

A last long laugh at the edge of death

Last long laugh at the edge of death