Romeo A Go-Go - Every Time I Die

Tonight I’m coming home

In a coma

If it fucking kills me

Listless but relieved

Beaming like a newborn hostage

Orphaned by an ambulance

I got this new black eye just for you

Your hopeless romantic

Now helplessly rheumatic

Poets grinding teeth to powder

All my vowels

Are getting lost in the gauze

Misinterpret courting

For the cursing of a drooling fool

Here’s to cheap sex and codeine

In a hospital bed

And maybe I’d object

If I felt at all alive

Everybody’s dying to lay down with you

I got the order all wrong

I must have bumped my head

Maybe I should quiet down

Don’t bet on another blackout

I’ll be all right

There’s an army at my window

Waiting to lose this fight

I’m the king of this all night clinic

The fucking champion

Tonight we’ll feast like royalty in traction;

Happy and meticulous

There’s a delicate love song in this;

Kicked out and dripping in verse

Go get your gun

'Cause God won’t show

He sent a poet instead

The Don Quixote of the ICU

Quite impressive

For a cripple

Munchhausen by Proxy of a muse

Tempt not a desperate man

Tempt not a desperate man

This split lip is for you

I traded it for an outdated tooth