Shimmering Gold

a hard skin to crawl under when you can’t get with the joke ev’ryone is a foreigner they want to see you up in smoke burning, burning up in smoke burning, burning down real slow friends looking on, vaguely confused cannot be expected to know black dog bites blindingly cruel pain has the colours of shimmering gold burning, burning, shimmering gold burning, burning down real slow what of all the summer rain? laughter from another room all the windows and doors are closed no exit here, enter the fool one way mirror, a real live show burning, burning, shimmering gold burning, burning down real slow burning, burning, shimmering gold burning, burning down real slow shimmering gold