Sacred Heart - Cass McCombs

Sacred Heart, surveyed from the summit

A pantheon, distant as ever

Echoing up the mountainside

Escaped sound, like a vulcan kiss upon the forehead

Alas!

Jimmy

And all the members of the covenant

Noble scholars

Without you I’d have drowned in gutterwater

Alas!

You, of course, have my infinite gratitude

You, My Most Sacred Heart

Yet I piss and moan for I have ____

Dearly Departed

We are gathered here today in reverence

Dearly Departed

We all will return to the soil

Alas!

Alas!

For all my Alas!-es

I cannot mend this massive slashing

Futile beacon!

Cinderella’s in the doghouse

The doghouse

The doghouse

No, love doesn’t always boomerang