katie
we never learned to waltz
and yet it seemed to mean
so much to me
once
and i know now you never will
at least not with me
or my elephant feet
talk
to me before you leave
your floral dress spins minuets
in my otherworldly dreams
where i'm counting to keep you in time
but you'd never step to the same beat
as my dumb heart
katie
i longed to see you waltz
and i'll bet that you
had no clue
and hated dancing too
but i won't know that now for sure
for those answers lie
in a private life
that i don't
have access to anymore
every version of our past
is locked behind
a guarded metal door
and my old key
it asks of me
what did she make me for?
when she could just leave you for leigh
and if that's the case
then what was the point
in sharing anything?
oh kate
i wish i could just see you once more
just to see the tattooed v's
you both got on your knees
after three months apart from me
i feel like you were never who
i always thought you'd be
it's as though your eyes weren't blue
but then if they weren't
you would have lied
to everyone else too
and i wouldn't be the only one
surprised to find that
you could just move on
so please
you know this is what i need
to help make sense of how
you could leave
Though he was uncredited, Steve Albini was behind the boards on this noise rock classic from the forever feral Jesus Lizard. Bandcamp New & Notable May 8, 2024