Days of Wine & Roses

When she roasted that crack stem

And just gave me that zombie look...

I knew it was fate

For thirteen years we were on that date

Days of Wine...

And Roses too

Loving and bleeding

All black & blue

Sublime madness

Dawn's burn 'way dimes

How I embraced such sadness

On an old, soiled mattress

She began her decline...

Days of Wine...

And Roses too

Loving and bleeding

All black & blue

And from those ashes

A Phoenix did arise

Tho a miracle not beholden

Her soft, red-webbed eyes

Silver tears now suturate

The earth & root she now entwines

And many a night

Do I roll over her side

In routine desperation

Believing I can still tender her cry...