A Little Love

You are a girl
You are my treasure
I am a boy who
Lives only for pleasure
Who says you're a saint
When even the trees are sinners?
These petty virtues
Are for beginners

Close your eyes
You're gonna feel a little prick
Falling in love
Is my favorite magic trick
Pick a card
But don't let me see
Your eyes
Or I fear my heart
Will freeze

It's easy to deny
Yourself a little love
But it doesn't ease the pain

I'm comin' out swinging
From the branches of your tree
I'll see you in that ballroom
At the bottom of the sea
Where your hair is flowing
And your eyes
Are sad
Like the wings of dead butterflies

Tell me lies
Disguised by a little love
Help me ease the pain

Down the drain
We slide
In blissful absence of a brain
Through a crazy glowing maze
Of otherworldly pipes
Tampons and handi-wipes
I am healed by the stripes
The screams and severed hands
Of the delicious and the damned
So hand me my knife
And pledge me your life
No safe havens
No gentle shores
No crazy ravens
No wannabe whores

Carnivores unite
Take another bite
Your skin so white and smooth
Come over here baby and I'll soothe
Your pain, tangled in my arms
Tonight

You are a girl
You are my treasure
I am a boy who
Lives only for pleasure
Who says you're a saint
When even the trees are sinners?
These petty virtues
Are for beginners

Winter feels like spring
It turns a pawn into a king
When you have just a little love
In your heart

©2012 Nathan Payne