Crime scene

I peeled you off like onion skin
In layers I meant to be burning again and again
I'm smaller than I was before, than I was before
Odd and even to the core
You thrill and disgust me, just like this city
Right down to your girders and grime,
You're meanness, your muggings
Your casual crimes
I'm a Jersey girl, a tunnel train
Empty, then loaded, then empty again

These days I'm just passing through
Someday I won't remember you
You fuck like an artist
And you know that you do
You got 'em dripping in fuschia
And moaning in cobalt blue
And we all run into each other like watercolors
In other lives, in other countries
I loved you just the same
In some lost language my tongue
has licked the vowels in your name
I limped off like a crime scene
I took self defense classes
I now walk wide of dark alleys
And blondes with little round glasses
I won't remember you
I peeled you off like onion skin
In layers I meant to be burning again and again

Dayna Kurtz

Por cierto, en ese enlace que he puesto, el myspace de Dayna, se puede escuchar una canción que no está en ninguno de sus discos, una versión personal, preciosa, de It's not love (but it's not bad), que al parecer es un éxito del gran Merle Haggard compuesto por Hank Cochran, y que, ya que estoy desmadrado en esta tarde de procrastinación y música country, también transcribo aquí:



It's not love

He was always there each time I needed you
Holding on to me like I held on to you
We still don't have what you and I once had
No, it's not love, but it's not bad
No, it's not love, not like ours was
It's not love, but it keeps love from driving me mad
And I don't have to wonder who he's had
No, It's not love, but it's not bad

I turn to him when you leave me alone
Sometimes even when you're here, and you're still gone
He's slowly changing what you leave so sad
No, it's not love, but it's not bad
No, it's not love, not like ours was
It's not love, but it keeps love from driving me mad
And I don't have to wonder who he's had
No, it's not love, but it's not bad

Hank Cochran