Caricature of A Joke - Silkworm

It’s getting ready to pour

Streetlights flicker on again

Once more it’s time to descend

Into the end of another long day

A week 'til the fourth a month 'til this dump’s dead end

But this heart is mine to lend not just anyone’s to take away

Watery eyes I got all choked up

Paper-thin walls keep it down

All the bad habits that you took on

Are coming out more every round

All the cars are splashing by

In a hurry to get their drivers home

Have one of them take you along

The first good safe chance I get

Maybe Earth’s core can pull on your empty head

And someone else can pretend

That your skin doesn’t get in the way

Get your head up

The end is near

No one said this would be fun

One short drive

One long pull on the trigger of a loaded gun

There goes the water

Turn those headlights off

It’s hot as hell and the extra wattage wears me down

Like a wick eaten up by the flame

Drains overflow

The gutter’s slow and choked

It came and stole my friend and left a caricature of a joke