Yesterday, I was working in my when I saw a possum in the foothills and he was all beat up and hobbling I got a closer look and his foot was I was woken up earlier by I thought was the cat tangled But it was him who got it bad from the cat night Slowly down the when he slipped under the fence I brought myself up to check him he found a nook under the air conditioner I pointed him out to Caroline, she crouched down and he was shaking and of fear And when she up, I asked, "Baby, why you crying?" She said, "Because he's cute and he's down there and dying"
I went up to my room and I got a from Justin He was in San Francisco and Godflesh was Caroline me halfway there where I met Tony And we drove to the and we parked out in front of the DNA Justin and us, we had some laughs and we photographs backstage And our were protruding and all of them and we just kept laughing and laughing and laughing and laughing and laughing and laughing and laughing Laughing and laughing and laughing and laughing and laughing and and laughing Laughing and laughing and laughing and laughing and laughing and laughing and Laughing and laughing and and laughing and laughing and laughing and laughing
And when Godflesh took the stage, Tony and I, we stood floored Drum machines and feedback blazed For a moment, grew silent While Justin his guitar; like a church, it got so quiet Just for a minute, and then they all together Like a car off a cliff, we crashed and burned and over and again and again They threw vicious guttural B-flats [?] like a tough Roberto "Hands of Stone" in the seventh round Davey June 16, 1983 Godflesh [?] like an early "Gator" Rogowski lunged at the mic like a hungry grey white He was on fire, giving it everything he had and it that night! Tearing out his prey and it came to a screeching A relentless and 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 to my apartment in the city Until 4AM, I watched movies and my ears ringing And I called out at the house We talked about the concert, about the down in the nook
And the ocean air through my window And the sound of foghorns, and when I woke Godflesh was in LA Tony had an open house day And I out at Sausalito And Caroline was on her way back from Tahoe I got a call from Sorrentino I'd be off to Switzerland in a or so
Caroline came home that night and we had dinner and HBO And I'm grateful for her and for my friends And to have seen the possum walk its last walk along the
I want to old and to walk my last walk Knowing that I, too, 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 like to die music in my ears The piano of Maurice Ravel or Godflesh's growls from hell The that evokes good memories of being young and able to get around And I'd like Caroline me
That old possum the fight His sad, eyes; what a thing to see on a glowing Easter Sunday But that was loved and he's still thought of bells rang that day I remember hearing them in the afternoon just as we He had to have heard too