Zugzwang

You were nodding to the music mellow and cool
So I scooched on over next to you on a stool
I could be a little brimstone in your handbasket
You’d be my shoulder demon making all that racket
Please, just sit here next to me

Not sure what I’s expecting but you sure blew my mind
With a palpitating heart and spiders up my spine
Like poisonous incense, colored clouds and I’m blind
So pour more of your tincture please one more time

And I was strolling back over from the hungry tip jar
And I scooched on over next to you at the bar
You say you work in retail, well you’ve got me sold
Wait five minutes, I’ll bring you myrrh and gold
Please, just sit here next to me

Not sure what I’s expecting but you sure blew my mind
With a palpitating heart and spiders on my spine
Like poisonous incense, colored clouds and I’m blind
So pour more of your tincture please one more time

And I heard you above the static like some back attic magic
You’ve got your pins all through me
A note on a white napkin, the corner you’ve got me backed in and
I don’t want to be free

You keep a blow torch armed at the back of your throat
With lasers and daggers hidden by eyelids closed
Take me and break me and make me walk on your coals
And I’ll return to your sewn oats like a lost wounded foal
And please, just sit here next to me

Not sure what I’s expecting but you sure blew my mind
With a palpitating heart and spiders on my spine
Like poisonous incense, colored clouds and I’m blind
So pour more of your tincture please one more time
And pour more of your tincture please one more time