Iris Black - Paul Dempsey

Iris Black takes a little while

To gather her thoughts

They get in and out of passing town cars

They keep wandering off

Joining marching bands and street parades and

Hiding out in bars

They say, «we've never been lonely a day in our lives

And we’re not about to start»

Iris Black takes a moment

To catch her breath

It’s shot through on another honeymoon

It’s try, trying to leave her for dead

It’s blowing out somebody’s birthday candles

It’s stealing cigarettes

She says, «every other day something takes my breath away

Then something just brings it back again»

Iris Black breaks the windows

Says it keeps her young

See the child actors all flying backwards

Into the midmorning sun

She’s trying to find the right words before they can

Get their ice skates on

She says, «I've stayed on the run

For just long enough

To never find out

To never find out what I’ve become»