Little Boy Blue

Lemon grass and watermelon seeds
Strawberry-blonde boy
With the railroad track disease

Merry bought a ticket for a twenty-dollar ride
It's a slow train to ghost town
I'll meet you on the other side

Little boy blue, come blow your horn
The meadow is empty
And your promises worn
Don't trust the spade queen
She just went to war
And the jack-in-the-box toy you bought
Won't turn tricks for you anymore

Rose-hip girlfriend
Where the morning glories grow
The man-in-the-moon marigold
Swore we never would grow old

I read your palm in the candlelight
I saw how you'd burn me
And I saw how you died

Little boy blue, with the hot wheels tattoo
Your hands are empty
And your promises few
I'm out behind the firehouse
Praying for a sign
Sifting through your ashes
I hear them whisper your lines

Up on Danny’s rooftop
We watched the full moon rise
You rocked me so sweetly
To the rhythm of your lies

Down in Blagden Alley
Where the crooked hookers hung
We grew up like wild weeds
Reaching for the sun