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(And they shall dry up and crack like burnt clay)

Because you hit her in your sleep

and thought the devil was coming

to get ya

Because you try every morning

and by lunchtime you are drunk

Because when everyone dissapears

you're left smiling in and out with reality

of light

Because when walls close in

new rooms emerge

and meth-amphetamine

may eat your soul 

yet

Because you were a philosopher

at six years old

Because all six year olds are 

philosophers

Because the old men are dying

before television sets

and thats the way it is

Because the young are brimming

with sickness stupidity

and hunger

and that's the way it is

Because I counted with you

six thousand and fourty three

cigarette butts

between the sex shop and hotel

and most of them were emptied

of their remnants

Because

our minds are racing

our feet pacing

and our asses 

stuck in traffic

Because we are reptile

Because we are sleeping Gods

Because we are sleeping

Because of the dreams

Because we are sleeping

Because we ripped ourselves

inside out under the night-sky

screaming for sanctuary

from whispered demons

and praying for womb

til there was nothing left

and so 

started again

Because I loved you

Because we are confused

and terrified

and delighted to be this way

Because of the relentless day and night

fall and rising

like the breath of zeitgeist

growing cold

Because of heart-strings

 - memories

and the tears of a thousand agonies

Because the river flows still

and the children thirst duststorms

in the mouths of babes

on ricketed legs

Because - the Whore of television

Because apathy is sexy

Because there is no reason only madness

Because there is no other way

Because it's all there is

Because we don't know why

Because we don't know

why..

Because of the eternal golden mountain lions of your heart!