Soul Coughing Mr. Bitterness
(M. Doughty) There is a bar they call The Bitter Sea. And she sits and drinks a velvet crush--that's Kool Aid and gin--casing the clientele Like a relentless cameraman. She is Elsewhere. She says You keep a-knocking But you can't come in, and I say Little Sister, don't you do what your Big Sister does Spiral down down down down down down down Well desire looks just like you with an uzi nine Gundown fifteen bystanders in a roadside driveby Desire is the grassfire drinking gasoline And she says Open up your mouth, man, let me come inside Spiral down down down down down down down She cracked Now they call me Mr. Bitterness She snapped Now they call me Mr. Bitterness She's gone, Gone gone Aaah, leaning up against the wall I will lash out dancing like a madman when you're gone I will spit the blue flame and hurl my glass against the wall And I will hear your name coming out from a boom box I will hear your name called out from passing cars Spiral down down down down down down down She cracked...
