The crimes of adolescence
Sometimes hard to understand
Still we knew we had each other
To face innocence hand in hand
On the battlefield of growing up
Finding solace in each others charms
But when I needed her to hold me
She placed a needle in her arms
Our garden once so fruitful
Now withering up dried
Despite how much I watered it
With all the tears I cried
And when I needed her to hold me
Share some cheap champagne
There wasn’t enough room for me
With that needle in her vein
And the needle in her arms
Replaced me in her heart
Coursing through her passion
Tearing us apart
And all the tears I cried
Couldn’t make the flowers stay
Because skags a drag that destroys life
And dragged my love away
The Needle
In her arms
Took her hurt away
A spoonful of medicine
But our love it would decay
Absorbed in her blood
Becoming her master
Her mister…..
I miss her
But I dismissed her
When heroin kissed her
She kissed back
Now I dress in black
Cause I cast her out
Out in the street on her own
To face perilous harms
The warmth of love our replaced
By the etchings in her arms
Tattoos of despair
Red scars of disarray
I lost her love
She lost her life
I was supposed to guard her
God damn it
I should have tried harder
She’s no longer alive
Kissed by midnight black tar
Left without a single care
Another shooting star
Burning across the night sky
To its death
At least that’s the story I heard
Or maybe its just how the legend is told
The therapy in her arms
Of her heart took a hold
Left her breathless one night
Was it her desperate passion
That made her tie off and shoot
Could she not live without me
Guess the points moot
Maybe it was on purpose
I will never know
If she held me in her arms
I would never let go
Too little too late
Life’s beholden to fate
I pray she found her peace
At least
What she never found in me
Her soul forever forgiven
Unconditionally
Or maybe there’s an angel
On a bright starry night
To pick up her memory
And in her arms hold her tight
Terrapin - The Journey 