Endgame Lyrics

Came fall we drank

The listless rain

Scurved all the way down our soggy brain

The world unbound in hurricane

And summer'd swum in honeyed trees

Afire with ants and prickly fleas

And a swerving cloud of sodden bees

Came down to kiss our brittle knees

Then winter brought us mops and brooms

And rats ascuttle in attic rooms

We stayed in bed and talked til noon

I don't remember much the spring

The cruelest month is what it sings

The greening hurts and then it brings

An iris bloom, a blossom wing

A purple tongue, to announce a king

But all that iris feels is sting.

And what it claims

Is who it blames

And when it beams

Is why it screams.

And when the beam

Says who's to claim

Then what's the scream

When none's to blame

But you

So why?

Why you?

Takes two

Folks to

Make you

And one folk to die

Is why

So that then

And only then

This tilt-a-worldly

World-awhirl

Can end

But when?