Marquee Moon - Tom Verlaine

I remember

How the darkness doubled

I recall

Lightning struck itself.

I was listening

Listening to the rain

I was hearing

Hearing something else.

Life in the hive puckered up my night,

The kiss of death, the embrace of life.

There I stand neath the Marquee Moon Just waiting,

Hesitating…

I ain’t waiting

I spoke to a man

Down at the tracks.

I asked him

How he don’t go mad.

He said «Look here junior, don’t you be so happy.

And for Heaven’s sake, don’t you be so sad.»

Well a Cadillac

It pulled out of the graveyard.

Pulled up to me

All they said get in.

Then the Cadillac

It puttered back into the graveyard.

And me,

I got out again.