Michael McGuire You'll Never Know
YOU’LL NEVER KNOW
When did it happen? how; I mean what did she do? poison chemicals,
oh god, did she have the chirp? well than why? she’s the last person
that would ever give up, yeah but she wasn’t a nihilist she was an
idealist, yeah I guess there isn’t much difference in a world like this,
yeah she was always saying while the body has breath there’s still
hope, if I jump I wont fall what does that mean, did she leave a note or
anything, I follow the only trail hope has left.
Driving home from the funeral of the world, I’m wondering was it
homicide or suicide, my heart is broken open and my soul is leaking
out, it’s like the keeper of my faith just ran off with the payroll, I know
if wisdom had a voice she was surly its tongue, she was like a diamond
on the surface of the moon, I feel like a dog dying on the side of the
road, what the f*** we living with to make us kill ourselves, when the
best die with the answer who’ll be the last to know, oh Sophia can you
hear me my thoughts have gone blind, can you stir your dead body
back to life in my mind, you’ll never answer and now I’ll never know,
where time dries up the river and the blood dreams flow, come and
take me with you I’m all chalk and bone, yeah we live in the billions but
we die alone.
Now I can hear the earth’s pitiful whine, or was that yours or is it mine,
you were always joyous even when you were sad, you said all is good
even when it was bad, did you do it with a smile or did you do it with a
grin, did it feel like salvation or did it feel like sin, if you were confused
you never let it show, what did you think yeah what did you know.
july 93