The Lady and the Lizard - The Verlaines

I need to just be alone all day

You didn’t like my song of the sea —

Well that’s okay

It’s got nothing to do with you

But it sure as hell was at the time

It wasn’t what you wanted to hear

You’d already decided

On me saying 'I love you'

I haven’t got my mind up to date

I scream back through years of desolation

Public parks and coffee shops

Where the young punks spent their force

The young lover’s love took it’s course

We’re playing lizards on the rock

Through the cigarette haze

In the hole in the wall

Where nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody at all

Risked going down to get up any higher

Well I listened to Mahler, looked over my shoulder…

I spent a lot of time with dead-shit people

So I could learn to read and write

I still move within those circles

And maybe I’m still partly the lizard —

And there’s a crack above the ladder of my heart

You still look at me and smile