He Bought Her A Diamond For Her Throat

He Put Her In A Ranch House On A Hill

She Could See The Valley Barbecues

From Her Window Sill

See The Blue Pools In The Squinting Sun

Hear The Hissing Of Summer Lawns



He Put Up A Barbed Wire Fence

To Keep Out The Unknown

And On Every Metal Thorn

Just A Little Blood Of His Own

She Patrols That Fence Of His

To A Latin Drum

And The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Darkness

Wonder Makes It Easy

Darkness

With A Joyful Mask

Darkness

Tube's Gone, Darkness, Darkness, Darkness

No Color No Contrast



A Diamond Dog

Carrying A Cup And A Cane

Looking Through A Double Glass

Looking At Too Much Pride And Too Much Shame

There's A Black Fly Buzzing

There's A Heat Wave Burning In Her Master's Voice

Hissing Summer Lawns



He Gave Her His Darkness To Regret

And Good Reason To Quit Him

He Gave Her A Roomful Of Chippendale

That Nobody Sits In

Still She Stays With A Love Of Some Kind

It's The Lady's Choice

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns