roaches

Words by Bryon Bowers

there's a goodbye on the radio tonight… Kurt Cobain packed up and took his last flight… listened to his voice again and again… roaches came out crawling down from our great tree…. they were in the walls… in the old chimney crushed under shoe and down the drain… flushed it down with all my pain he'll never play the monkey…. on the stage again he’ll write his words and feel em In his heart I could see his want to flee I can feel it here in me… I see the shell around him on my rich friend’s M. T. V. … sometimes you want the world…. to just let you be…. [Chorus] there's a goodbye on the radio tonight… all the roaches have come out to fight… Set it off Close the windows Close the Doors You Graced the Counters… You Cleaned the floors… They climbed out Corners… Any crumb of you A tasty morsel for the world to chew… Set one off With an air swish boom Closed the door Got out of the room Air can sliding by my ear Future Cancer balls Bouncing in the recesses of my mind [Chorus] there's a goodbye on the radio tonight… all the roaches have come out to fight… Set it off Close the windows Close the Doors You Graced the Counters… You Cleaned the floors… They climbed out Corners… Any crumb of you A tasty morsel for the world to chew… Get away car Waiting outside Packed up Ready to ride Sandwiches Chips Everything between I can hear the roaches scream I can hear them Getting their affairs in order Drawing up wills And taking ease into death pills They are ready to crawl out Lay down Bask in the light fluorescent bulbs electromatic fields Of ancient things [Chorus] there's a goodbye on the radio tonight… all the roaches have come out to fight… Set it off Close the windows Close the Doors You Graced the Counters… You Cleaned the floors… They climbed out Corners… Any crumb of you A tasty morsel for the world to chew… Ran in the cold of a juno morning…. Foot off the boat mist seeping all around a father and daughter Nail shingles down Cold Alaskan air On my face and on my legs… I stop to catch my breath there’s a buddha moose staring back at me body twisted in tranquility… [Chorus] there's a goodbye on the radio tonight… all the roaches have come out to fight… Set it off Close the windows Close the Doors You Graced the Counters… You Cleaned the floors… They climbed out Corners… Any crumb of you A tasty morsel for the world to chew… boat crew tips My semester budget imposter of luxury Pacific tour Rust around port hole door open… stood on the edge railing metal hard and cold… looking down for you in the dark moving sea contemplated a swim in you then I thought of a lovely thing or two with you… and in my heart I began to sing… [Chorus] there's a goodbye on the radio tonight… all the roaches have come out to fight… Set it off Close the windows Close the Doors You Graced the Counters… You Cleaned the floors… They climbed out Corners… Any crumb of you A tasty morsel for the world to chew… there's a goodbye on the radio tonight… all the roaches lay dead… as I lay down my head… And listen softly… to the words of the dead….

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