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Tonight

from Johanna, Johanna by Ian Taylor

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Iris, she's beside herself by the window where she paints her Hell
and I can see it well, tonight.
The weatherman beneath a kerosene lamp while his bible slips from his bleeding hands, he's returned to the land, tonight.
Rain smiles through green eyes and silhouettes of sunshine and moonlight, tonight.
The present stands naked like a stranger unexpected to show here, tonight.

And any weakness around here will you get you killed dear
so don't you cry at all.
And each time a phone rings I hope it's you calling me but each time I'm wrong.

Three men with a death wish in a field of pages are singing, tonight.
Everything is misery eventually, I just want to sleep but it will not pass, tonight.
You're a pinup girl, a peppermint swirl, a penciled ghost at the end of the world and I can feel it unfurl, tonight.
The serpent priest who's soaked in bleach with a cigarette between his teeth, he will not dream, tonight.

And the Queen of Neptune with her strep throat and cinnamon moon she lies now like leaves.
With the heart of an artist, it's tragic but touching with the soul of Annabel Lee.

She has no age, no restricting pain but a gypsy face and a lemming-like fate, tonight.
Maggie makes my mouth numb still, like a drug that kills like a void that needs to be filled, tonight.
Twisted and tangled on a living room couch, dancing in kitchens with words in my mouth that won't come out, tonight.
And while the streetlights blur I'm a passenger with a twisting mind full of thoughts of her and I will not be cured, tonight.

And that mundane fiend full of dopamine with skin like a magazine and hands like a thief, he aches.
My heart it hangs on a puppet string dependent on each move you make, full of empty space, it breaks.
Full of empty space it breaks.

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from Johanna, Johanna, released November 17, 2014

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