Yesterday, I was in my yard when I saw a possum Swinging in the and he was all beat up and hobbling I got a look and his foot was mangled I was woken up earlier by what I thought was the cat But it was him who got it bad from the cat night Slowly down the hill when he slipped under the I myself up to check him out; he found a nook under the air conditioner I pointed him out to Caroline, she crouched down and he was shaking and full of And she stood up, I asked, "Baby, why you crying?" She said, "Because he's cute and he's down and he's dying"
I went up to my room and I got a from Justin He was in San and Godflesh was playing Caroline drove me halfway there I met Tony And we to the city and we parked out in front of the DNA Justin and us, we had some laughs and we took backstage And our guts were protruding and all of them and we just kept laughing and laughing and laughing and laughing and and laughing and laughing Laughing and laughing and laughing and and laughing and laughing and laughing Laughing and laughing and and laughing and laughing and laughing and laughing Laughing and laughing and laughing and laughing and laughing and laughing and
And Godflesh took the stage, Tony and I, we stood there floored Drum machines hammered and feedback For a moment, everybody silent Justin tuned his guitar; like a church, it got so quiet Just for a minute, and then they all soared a car off a cliff, we crashed and burned over and over and again and again They threw hard vicious guttural [?] like a tough "Hands of Stone" Durán in the seventh round Davey Moore 16, 1983 Godflesh [?] like an early "Gator" Rogowski Justin lunged at the mic like a hungry white He was on fire, giving it he had and killing it that night! Tearing out his and it came to a screeching halt A and beautiful voice, a 70 minute assault And then he bowed down and he set his seven electric guitar down And screeched to hell and they disappeared and off went the crowd
Then we had pizza and I came back to my apartment in the Until 4AM, I movies and my ears were ringing And I called Caroline out at the We about the concert, about the possum down in the nook
And the ocean air came through my And the sound of foghorns, and then I woke Godflesh was in LA had an open house that day And I out at Sausalito And Caroline was on her way from Lake Tahoe I got a call from Sorrentino I'd be off to Switzerland in a or so
Caroline came home night and we had dinner and watched HBO And I'm grateful for her love and for my And to have seen the possum walk its last walk the island
I want to grow old and to walk my walk Knowing I, too, gave it everything I got But again it's all and all obstacles I fought For to live day is much better than to not And I'd to die with music in my ears The of Maurice Ravel or Godflesh's guttural growls from hell The sound that evokes good memories of being young and to get around And I'd like Caroline me
That old possum lost the His sad, black eyes; what a thing to see on a glowing Sunday But that rodent was loved and still thought of Church rang that day I remember hearing them in the just as we left He had to heard them too