Skunk
by Mike Keneally
From the album: Boil That Dust Speck
Track 4 of 30 on Boil That Dust Speck (1994).
Duration: 2:40
Lyrics for Skunk
Bleak image that cause you pain This palace is Skunk's domain His spirit's an open sore His whimsy results in war Maybe it's a shattered childhood Maybe he could never smile good Sympathy he never mastered Maybe he's a rotten bastard But he ran his fingers down my spine Tried to make his madness mine Took me to a distant hillside Tried to make my spirit cyanide Tried to screw my heart and soul then Took a step back and told him No you won't be killing my love for life He smile a wicked his tooth a knife He said he wouldn't let me leave him I said I would be glad to grieve him He said I do what he shall will me I said you're gonna have to kill me He said it isn't wise to spurn him I said I would be glad to burn him He said he making my life his life I took myself out a buckknife And I put a cut in his big red eye Took a jump off the cliff to fly I hear him screaming and how he cried He flying bleeding he by my side Flying to the sun and higher Bursting in a ball of fire Falling to the earth and water In the arms of Neptune's daughter Blind and nearly dead I felt her Offering me food and shelter Quiet as a naked schoolmouse Found me an abandoned farmhouse Then she said to me you must come and hide I am here for you, come inside We remaining for seven days Free from enemy's poison gaze Waking up from our sleeping We thought we heard a tiny weeping Took a peek out of the window Suddenly a massive wind blow And the whole place is torn to shreds Skunk laughing with one eye dead He tried to reach and grab my love But that I won't hear of Grabbed the sucker by his collar Said I'm gonna make you holler Tore his every leg and arm off Threw his noggin in the barn trough Made a stew from his intestine Safe to say I fully messed him Then there was a change in weather Sucker pulled himself together Well, thank God my lady had run away Skunk kill me with one foul spray Bleak image that cause you pain This palace is Skunk's domain
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