Delivering the mail last monday morning to 66th and 5th
Gail Garcia started screaming in Spanish and English 
Phoebe Fairweather, age 23, jumped out from the 16th floor balcony and hit the poor city sidewalk, 
 
Phoebe said  the CIA was looking for her.  But, c'mon why would they waste their time?  
When her mother, Prudence, married John, Phoebe was 6, her sister Alex was 9 
And John was just an art star famous for car crash sculptures and work on the moon   
And they were all busy competing for devotion to the cult of go-getters who paid their dues

Phoebe Fairweather
Cristo te ama
Jesus loves you and so does God
But Some must fall to make it clear 
that even lovers leave others in tears



Prudence and Alex made films about John
After a 60 year career, he'd gotten high and mighty 
But Phoebe was the failure who just stopped eating and tagged along
While John won the battle and died fighting

Anthony Woodcock, 44, a doorman at the Pierre, said he prayed for Phoebe.  
He said he was sick to his stomach when he watched her fall.  When he saw her crushed body on the pavement, Jose Arias, 62, took his shirt off and  covered his head and cried. 
And Phoebe's flat, in a building owned by Spitzer, once cock swallowed by Dupres, the singer who made it big, rents for 400 dollars a day.

Phoebe Fairweather
Cristo te ama
Jesus loves you and so does God
But Some must fall to make it clear 
that even lovers leave others in tears

Phoebe Fairweather

On Friday, will I go to your show? Unlike you I've never been a local hero
Never played a hand at poker or gotten drunk with anyone who might abuse it, 
I barely  leave my room, no wonder 
Maybe I am a fool   

And on Saturday, I might go to your show.
I guess I seem pretty selfish, I spent this whole weekend in bed with Michelle
I felt so ugly, but she said I was kind and it made her cry.  
And her tears tasted nice, so I told her

Years ago on Ludlow I screamed at Pianos
Years ago on Ludlow I screamed at Pianos
I wore pink panties and I tried to play piano
I didn't document it then but there are those who know
And on Sunday, will I go to your show? 
 
After Michelle went home, Matthew walked out to piss, 
he said
No one will remember any of this  
It doesn't matter what you miss, then he shut the door 

Now it's Monday. I'm listening to an interview with Jarvis Cocker.
He's playing a recording of War is Over by Scott Walker
Who says to "tell your deepest dark goodbye". "tell your deepest dark goodbye"
And then I smile and try to cry, I tell them

Years ago on Ludlow I screamed at Pianos
Years ago on Ludlow I screamed at Pianos
I wore pink panties and I tried to play piano
I didn't document it then but there are those who know

||:There are those who know:||

And there are those who don't

So tell your deepest dark goodbye tell your deepest dark goodbye tell your deepest dark goodbye and find out where they sleep at night. Take away the things they hide.  Stick a needle in their eyes. Burn them in a room alive  Tell your deepest dark goodbye 


Years ago on Ludlow I screamed at Pianos

Once I Was A Worm


Gettin' down on the dance floor
Everybody's gone
Get down on the dance
Everybody now
It's party time
Getting down with my friends we're taking a ride into the world of dancing happiness and everybody gonna be happy yeah everybody's dancing everybody's dancing in the world Ahh everybody's gettin' down we're going go down were gonna dig a hole everybody knows that dancing is the way to go everybody knows
Gettin' down on the dance floor
Everybody's gone
Get down on the dance floor
Everybody now
Everybody knows that you gotta go down
Get together in peace, be in peace. Stop fighting
stop torturing one another its just not the way you do it you gotta dance everybody's gotta dance together touch one another everybody's gotta do it now com on do it now
Gettin' down on the dance floor
Everybody's gone
Get down on the dance
Everybody now
We are going down to the dance floor to the dance floor to the dance..
Throwing our bodies round on the dance floor
Moving all around 
Just be in peace on the dance floor
Don't fight no more
Just get on down on the dance floor
Let's get up
On the dance floor
Oh right
That's how you do it baby, yes.

Jonathan Wood Vincent

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