Down In Her Arms

""Down in her arms on a three-day drunk When the world was lawless and wild With the last drop gone and the lust all shrunk I clung to her chest like a child Too weak to hold on to the little I had Too ensnared to walk off unharmed But to curl up and die didn't look all that bad Down in her arms. Down in her arms East Houston at dawn Played under her breath in my ear The pretty blue howl of a Joan Jett song (We were all poor and angry that year) A city in flames and the hounds at the wall Valhalla seemed not very far Just one small step and a bottomless fall Down in her arms. Staring back at the path my passion led down From a twelfth floor bedroom to the edge of endless dreams Baby touch me NOW. Down in her arms I looked up and caught A glimpse of a magical love But in a flash it was just another false god Struck down and dragged through the mud In the faraway dark he lay by my wife His hands slowly working their charm While I shut my eyes and held on for life Down in her arms""