Comfort Music

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Comfort Music

The insomnia had become unbearable,

I became Switters,

stolen directly from a Tom Robbins novel,

I transport my way to the Iraqi desert

accompanied by a group of nuns,

Why not come over?
You'll meet my mother
You'll meet my sister
You'll like my brother
Really you will...

I lie back and try to listen

without emotion

then a certain lyric

thuds in my mind and sets off the explosion

heavy zap, it creates a tear,

and I can't breathe.

Then she said,
I'm learning English
I can say "thank you"
I think I like you
Do you like my band-aid?
I hope you do...

I choke back but can't control,

I am with the nuns in the desert,

they believe in me and understand

where I am coming from.

but not where I'm going,

I cry uncontrollably.

Oh, oh, oh, oh
I am not busy
I'm free to travel
Where are you going?
Maybe you'll take me
I hope you do...

I finally gain control

and choke back the bile,

my throat is beyond my control

yet I can swallow a sob,

the nuns understand yet they

still can't help,

some are still confused

and I am at a loss to help them,

we change the song.

Oh, oh, she asked me
Do you know Vinnie?
He used to like me
I speak good English
I'm bathing with Peter
Pick me, I'm clean...

Once again I think I have won,

yet I know I will fall back under the

same spell and lose control,

I will lose control

but the voice that sends me

to the edge will also bring me

back,

and deposit me back on the

shore of the desert

with the nuns.

I have been rescued

but not saved.

Vinnie goes bare-back
Peter goes wet-back
Denny goes way back
Eddie should get back
Pick me I'm clean...

Don't listen to music I have been

told.

don't fall into the trap

where you risk it all by sobbing

uncontrollably

on the subway,

like some homeless tourette's

sufferer,

salty tears to wash the face

and scowls from the old woman

whose husband paid taxes all his life

and then happily died just to get

away.

The crying is my humanity

not my sentence to have it

taken away,

try explaining that to a guy

beside you on the bus,

nobody likes emotional men,

way too much explaining to do.

MCC

(Pick Me I'm Clean, strange "go to" song

credit to;

Frank Zappa (lead guitar, vocals)
Ike Willis (rhythm guitar, vocals)
Ray White (rhythm guitar, vocals)
Steve Vai (rhythm guitar, vocals)
Warren Cucurullo (rhythm guitar, vocals)
Denny Walley (slide guitar, vocals)
Tommy Mars (keyboards, vocals)
Peter Wolf (keyboards)
Bob Harris (keyboards, trumpet, vocals)
Ed Mann (percussion)
Arthur Barrow (bass, vocals)
Vinnie Colaiuta (drums))