Devil Night

from The New Beat Dandies by Syd R Duke

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lyrics

cross the streets of devil night
over rimbaud's pirate to golden light
and see the broken shipwreck dawn
scatter light on ruined morn
no time to sleep in this short game
grasp the morning's happy mane
carpe diem, seize the dream
where nothing's nothing that it seems
don't believe or trust your eyes
and don't believe your senseless sight
an angry fix is all you need
where crumbling ruined buddha pleads
and shattered cawing blackbirds hum
and spread their ruin upon the sun
the sun who shines with bleak despair
upon the torrid newborn pair
of cackling fiends, of hellish slaves
of mutual brutal forest waves
who sit beneath the moon's new beam
and slobber, squeal and softly scream
that where the road and pavement meet
there shall they lie, there at thy feet
and wander, joyless as a cloud
that floats on high through veil and shroud
that swoops and sighs and conquest crowns
a lonesome march of lonesome towns
who, mad through love and beer and time
have fallen raving and divine
who questioned with unanswered wit
what shall be done and shall be quit
and he who raved in ugly sight
the plain and charismatic christ
which stumbles in it's lonely jaw
and knows too high shall be no more
who need to see the flags unfurl
and at their master's feet they curl
while danger waits on beauty's seat
and strangers mate in pure defeat
while rotted, fetid answers bless
the mind of sheer unhappiness
and joylessness becomes a crime
in all this blessed page of rhyme
and consequence takes place at sea
and minds protest most bitterly
for in this dream we rest asleep
while outside broken guards do keep
the chains of shackled life untouched
so dreamers die to live too much
while all we do is all we know
and all we touch is all we show
and all we need in this short play
is time to have one happy day