Message for the Lady in the Red Hat By Andrea Longstaff

When I drink whisky my mind starts to melt I've been thinking about the hand I've been dealt Everyone lies if you look in their eyes And life doesn't begin at forty She was naked apart from the clothes that she wore Nothing makes sense to me any more As I swim with the sharks and I walk through the parks The leaves underfoot are sublime When you most need yourself you're never about I wanted to talk but life made me shout The bees in my brain buzzed through the pain Buy sex for the price of a bag No help when the snake began to uncoil On the way to insane while drilling for oil But because of this path and trying to laugh I know the difference between knowledge and wisdom.

Copyright Andrea Longstaff 2008

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