Maudlin Jack - Slim Twig

Dear friend karnivale

And confidant kabaret

Among us pooled 14 knives

And to me what did they say?

Oh i being me

Being a real maudlin jack — they says

'Go to m’ladies foxskin chambers

With a rook and a pack'

They says 'go to m’ladies foxskin chambers

With an axe and a rack'

Oh novella!

The psychedelia

It dovetails and it spirals

'Hind my eyes

I’s that glass-eyed knifeman

Bleeding scarlet on your chipped tile!

I’s that man with heartbreaker

In the back

A rook and a pack

An axe and a rack!

Well just then karnivale, kabaret

And a coupla devilish crooks

Were hummin on the corner

I come out cut and hooked

'Well she looked me in the eye

I’s buzzin

I’s aflame

She see my ginger antonym

And she a charlatan liar

Then i heard a crash

I heard a crash

Oh!

raven you got me

Yes raven you got me

Oh yeah!

Well he threw me a spade

So i struck him

I struck him

And i’s burnin

I’s aflame

I’s hummin

I’s buzzin

Oh yeah

Oh yeah

Oh ascension, ascension

Don’t call me by my first name

My first name

I’s burnin

I’s aflame

Is hummin

I’s hummin

Oh i heard a crash

I heard a crash

I heard a crash

So I

I struck him

I struck him