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    OKKERVIL RIVER

    Black Sheep Boy Appendix 2005 ©

    Black Sheep Boy #4

    Bleeding black sheep boy,
    mirror in pieces.
    Turn the receiver,
    trace the police station
    Line to my number
    and number my reasons
    for this paranoia,
    for these accusations.

    Each night the numbers
    paired off like lovers,
    collided together
    so I can't remember
    my name or my nation.
    Baying black sheep boy.

    Go back beyond the pasture,
    you cracked out of my head.
    Get in your battered Mustang
    and the back seat will be your bed.

    Burning black sheep boy,
    dark denim phantom.
    Face full of flames,
    the ears full of cheers that have fanned them.
    I'd slice off the horns that sprung right from those temples
    I was chased from my bedroom,
    I was chased from my candles.

    By fear of the numbers,
    paired off like lovers,
    collided together
    so I can't remember
    my face or my station.
    Pacing black sheep boy.

    The floor just won't support you,
    You hovered through the room.
    Get in your battered Mustang
    and the backseat will be your tomb.

    And I rode into Baltimore
    and I found a hotel room
    where I tried to escape you,
    but the phone line wouldn't go through.
    And inside the mirror,
    well I saw you stamping
    staring out
    I'd recognize your eyes
    You fell for any of the lines that come flying out.
    Nothing I've heard from you sounds sane or safe.
    Words falling down from the ceiling
    where the mirror is stealing
    the light to reveal us both tonight
    and we're both kneeling in the
    black pool of your shadow.

    You've cracked out of my head.
    Go back beyond the pasture,
    where I'll smash your mirror
    till you're dead.

    2005 ©

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