CANTICUM 9 RED ROCKS 63 Days in a God-haunted Haze

Sixty-three days in a God-haunted haze

Dues down paid with the dealers only made

Me want to get up and with the bimp down grades

My love is long gone, fingerprints will fade

So no one will know if I just don't go

Back to Austin to stand in the Chicon Street glow

Over red rocks spit out of you told me so

I'll hide in the dumpster so the smoke won't show

Know that it's over in forty days

Quarantined bad dreams, a skull for a face

Know that I'll be back there to take my place

As another man dances through a stranger's days

Take seven from eleven and I'll pay you two

One for myself and here's a silver tooth 

We're both burning rocks on the Fresh Up roof

A psychopathic liar and a lover of truth

She tells me again it's sin to fall down 

High tales told in a cold northern town

She traces tattoos on my skin in the lost and found

I'm walking to a rodeo trying not to be a clown

Holding all the memories that are tearing me apart

There's a hole in my chest for a dead dog's heart

Take a bottle from the desert, drink in all the bars

Falling off my barstool trying hard to play the part

I got a mirror in my trailer that's cracked three ways

Look into it long enough and you can still see her face

Up to facts about it all, those long summer days

In the smoke and the flame, the shame and disgrace

We burned up all her toys and sold all my books

About the bones and the language and everything it took

To take a dollar from the boy with the rabbit's foot

Set fire to the skies, lie about all we could

Now we stand in the front yard and she slaps my face

The bed's got a hole from where the dog took my place

Driving around the East Side for days and days

Crawl into the backseat to hide my face

I call out for forgiveness into a hung up phone

Digging through the snow, a dog for a bone

Trying to bury all the memories before I hear a dial tone

A recorded voice telling me that I'm not alone

Sixty-three days in a God-haunted haze 

Holding my breath for a measure of grace

Amazing as it might have been, it's not my place

To try and start it all to end again, both of us insane