the vixen
I find myself anointed By the black tears of my survivals Is my judgement so beyond repair? That the weight of my prejudice rests on a hundred heads? I'm struck by these arrows of gold The chivalry starts to grow old And my ill-temper may never see the pink of health again My cedar desk holds my tears like grime For over twenty years and a thousand nights As the chill winds itself on my spine like a snake I thank the heavens for my vixen like grace I sleep soundly with my armored soul locked in a bottle The jackals with their black sands wait in the dusk of the shadows No amount of sunshine washes away the dark night I walk into Full throttle, sailing the untamed oceans, they leave me battered and bruised I'm hit by these bullets of gold Ricocheted off the wall and they fall to the floor My burnt favors and scarlet letters Line the inside of my tomb of stone My cushioned fall grieves the death of my valor Played hard to get, watched my love life shatter I ...