"Johnny Ripper" by The Blood Brothers

twilight's million battered lips sleep in a house of
fractured smiles.
young love's clumsy fingertips are gonna find out for
themselves.
the birds keep on singing from the tops of trees, 
but the song's out of tune that drips from the breeze.
there's a razor in the garden waiting for a delicate head.
look out!
look out!
for diamonds sparkling where the trap doors swing into the
bottom 
of a cold misery full of insults to add to your collection, 
parking lots dangling from your diction, daydreams bobbing
in a shattered sea.
look out!
look out!
for sirens dancing where the nooses swing from gutted
branches 
of your fantasies full of insults falling from your ceiling,

motels where you're fucking without feeling, daydreams
bobbing in a shattered sea.
fake leaves shake like deceit on your tongue.
desperate mothers devoured by young.
hold on to love you learned to despise like an ocean choking
on its own tide.
there's a razor in the garden waiting to cut through your
seams.
look out!
look out!
the dull years drag the best days of your life through
asphalt 
and glass while summer's favorite fathers birthing next
year's deadbeat dads.
let's tack up another eviction note to matrimony's throbbing
throat 
stuffed with songs from a synthetic past, 
silver clouds and artifacts full of insults to add to your
collection, 
parking lots dangling from your diction, daydreams bobbing
in a shattered sea.