You and Me and Rainbows

Your number: 8. Your name is Jane, with black hair, braids, and black lines around your eyes… Shades to hide your habit. I don't know your age, though you guessed mine. My sign, your sign -- the opening line is always just the same. The same intention, destination. Just you and me and rainbows

Loaded guns attract. We know the rules, we don't react. We wait in hope, we don't expect –- just you and me and rainbows

Down here everything is fine. We have a straw, we have a line. We have a bag, a rock, a mountain ...with a string of shepherds driving lions. Aiming skewers at the sheep… face down, asleep, in onion fields. The frying fields. The worms… they peep through holes which once were eyes. They thrive, they bake, although we painted out the sky, the sun. There's only thunder. And you and me and rainbows

Let's hide out in the lay-by, let the time fly by. Tonight's disguise: a car crash with our wheels like shattered stars, our dashboard charred. Our windscreen like a graveyard for the flies (We're fast...!). Cock the gun, load it. The hungry flies are circling, mourning as the watchers squat, with cameras, cakes, ...and flasks. They're spying, spitting, as the blue light flashes. Axes axes axes swing. We're broken wings, but still we'll fly, and we'll reach our destination -– you and me and you and me, you and me and rainbows...

If we turn the lights down low and watch the sky cry through the window… Will I watch your fingers grow and stretch like butterflies? The shadows flexing, licking toes, and binding, as slowly sun sets on the same old hill. The same red glow. We're quite alone -– just you and me and rainbows

Everything I own is in the corner of your room. It's covered with a sheet just like it died – but I will take a broom. Sweep it new again, arrange it… Oh, I'll grow a dozen hands. No I never will neglect my world again. I'm safe beneath my blanket. Come home. For you, for me, and rainbows

Loaded guns attract
We know the rules, we don't react
We wait in hope
We don't expect
Just you and me and rainbows
Looking down