Old Man Perez

And when you hear this song
Measure you in years
Will the fingers of the blind
Find pleasure in your tears

Falling from your face
The way it wets your cheeks
And rests upon your lips
With the salty taste you speak
And those words form grounds
The pressure to exist in a world
With no one around
Is it the fear of a man
Or the fear of these mirrors and hammers
Falling down

I am old man Perez
I am as cold as any hand in death
I am what is left
A smile made of lead
A palladium's head
A small pile of geraniums red
As the earth now thrown
The surface now grown
Into the fleshy remains of roots
Now shown

She's all covered
I'm uncovered
In the science of sleep
The two become lovers
As sparrows do
Defining beauty in the order of life
If Camus knew
If Jean Paul saw
In a room with no exits
You are beyond the walls

I'm searching for a face
In the sweating of the stones
Robbed me of my faith
And said I'm better off alone
A writer gets away
A character set free
Though everything I am
Say it was better with Marie

But who knows
Maybe we're just too young
Too young at heart

So we go

Back to where we're from
To gain our start

Now she and I are the same
Left to our eyes in the rain
Left to despise why we came
Left to the mind I am Cain
Able is my will to survive it again
And yet I do
If I never hear a yes I do
Kept by you

I am but a trade
I am just business
The patron saint of lost interest

Like the bike you rode
In the streetlight left behind
When the times got old
I am just a taste
The face that you took
And forgot in a space full of books
And I'm locked and a hook to a song
I have no looks

I do not play along

My home
My bone and marrow
I am alone
I am the only sparrow
Frightened by the moon
The silence of it all
It lightens up your room
The nightingale she calls
Passing through the sky
Reminding you to sleep

The world is full of guys
Victory defeat
Yeah victory defeat
Yeah victory defeat
Victory defeat

I am your stranger now
Times are stranger
I am your stranger now
Times are stranger
I am your stranger now
Times are stranger
I am your stranger now
Times are stranger