Too Good Too Soon (Brown)
Picture a fool plunged in the riverbed
I was too good for this world
Naming the stones meant for your windowpane
I was too good for this world
A perfect somnambulist boned to be bred
To secret his missiles miles from your bed
Then judging the damage I ate them instead
I was too good for this world
Tempted and tried, dimly sacrosanct
I was too good for this world
Solemnly walking the Mayflower plank
I was too good for this world
Full chain mail and dreadful swift penknife in tow
Watching longing you dance free on the shoreline below
Never molested? well, what did I know?
I was too good for this world
Now the brutal trap of time has sprung
Even the great ones lay awake in the night
Why not join me when the night comes
Take this waterlogged bread and mark it with a G
Too good for this world
Nothing you've lost even matters to me
Turn loose of it, girl
The concomitant grip of the grindstone is cruel
I can see by your eyes you've been lost in its swirl
Imagine that I was too good for this world -- now let me be bad
So you've breathed in fire and cling to some amorphous thing
like failing sorrow I've been lashed to still I know the drill girl
give it to me clean
Farther along, no more or less wise
Too ripe for this will
See virtue is hoist up on its own surprise
It's kind of a thrill
Amuse me and dig how surprise has uncurled
Excite me and toss me those swine-baiting pearls
Cheer up, my sister, let that old riddle nag
I was too good for this world -- now let me be bad
All songs © 2009 SHANGHAI LOVE MOTEL
