Fall in Love - Steve Kilbey

I knew this man, he had some kind of fatal affliction

Each day, a tiny particle, a small drop of his soul, leaked or

Escaped into the air, out beyond the insipid the gray sky and

Into dead space

The paranormal specialist could find no way to plug the tiny perforations

Which dripped his spirit behind him as he went on down the highway

Fall in love with me, fall in love with me

It’s not impossible

Fall in love with me, fall in love with me

It’s not impossible

It was attributed to hashish and opium addiction, excessive womanizing

Lashings of money and flattery, and a charmed, but not charming life

Who can describe the agony of this gradual soul depletion?

Too cowardly to take his own life, he roamed the cafes and cabarets

Searching out other wretches who shared his most hideous malady

And they spent their days in sophistry and idle banter, as their

Essence oozed, and the void moved ever closer

Fred, the man, charlatan bastard, poor piteous doomed puppet

Immersed himself in these vices, but this only exacerbated his

Demise more rapidly

Eventually he could derive pleasure from nothing, the most lurid

Pornography or the most holy scriptures failed to arouse him from his

Stupor, his boredom

Great cities, or the endless beautiful plains stretched out before

His jaded gaze and disappeared into the nothingness of his feeling