Tommy - Petal

The way your smell lingers on my clothes

Creeps up, eats me inside out

I couldn’t make you stay

Shoot up in the trailer

I couldn’t make you stay here

Pebbles fall from under your toes

Jumped up, fucked up always

Like you were seeing something

Like you saw something beautiful

I couldn’t make you stay here

Dead skin piercing light

Through my eyes, through my spine

Catch a glimpse of a flicker and I try

And you are not here in my bed tonight

You never will be, tommy

And I forgot your eyes

And I forgot your hair

And I forgot you entirely

The fall from diamond gap

The ravages of time

If you don’t jump then I’ll be fine

And you won’t work in the factory

I’ll stop stripping

And I won’t leave if you won’t leave

If you don’t leave, Tommy