i'll see you again
my favorite song
always comes back on
you talk stakes
'til you're blue in the face
i know what i'm in for
and i know what you're in for
i know what i'm in for
and i keep my place

tell me what you want
-- or not, it's all clever
and anyhow, i ain't gotta wait
cuz i'm a good guesser
i'm a good guesser
and i guess you want me
and i guess you got me
and i guess you want me
and i keep my place

i'll offer up a trade 
that you can take or leave
i'll give you all the pieces 
of what's left of me
and if you can arrange them
and still see your girl
if you can arrange them
and still see your girl
honey, keep'em
cuz i got what i need

i'll see you again
my favorite song
always comes back on
you talk stakes 
'til you're blue in the face
i know what i'm in for
and i know what you're in for
i know what i'm in for
and i keep my place.

STATUS/POST

Arrange Me

Alvin

i'm not going to crouch
until you take me for 
how little i was
the new year's slinking at my back 
to smack its alligator jaws
that part a bit too wide 
for comfort 
in the curling fog

you've got me parked 
back on the tarmac 
for all to see
you've got your big jet plane
you've got your somewhere to be
well, i've got somewhere to be
yeah, i've got somewhere to be

what happens next?
i got my answer
when you brushed me aside
and kept me close,
close by 
for cabin checks
you always count on them 
to keep me alive

what bliss can curdle 
on the surface
with each thought drowned
how many? 
they all sound the same to me now

well did they fight?  
i could see
your head, it tipped
to the side 
as they would struggle for weight
and then die
let me mourn them and hope
that i wasn't alone from the start
as i stood by a cave
with the tide rushing out
hearing words in the wind 
that was caught in your mouth

what happens next?
i got my answer
when you brushed me aside
and kept me close
close by 
for cabin checks
as if i needed them 
to keep me alive

new is a fraud 
you haven't cornered into 
coming clean
i found your heart, miss scarlett!
part red, part green
i am no gentlemen
i've come to claim 
the holly queen

you've quite the light
i let it hit me when
no other could
i think i'll keep the shadow
he has always stood
behind me where
i thought you would

what happens next?
i got my answer
when you brushed me aside
and kept me close
close by 
for cabin checks
as if i needed them 
to keep me alive

Status/Post

Holly

i'm having quite a time 
a hell of a time 
an impossible time 
giving up on you 

tell me what you've got 
for me in your ice box 
i'm sick of picking 
that lock, of liking 
the cold 
it sticks to my hands 'til they shake - 
it's hard to keep ahold 
of the drink i have made of you, 
bitters & olive juice 

it burns straight though 
the first few times 
but now i don't taste you 
now i can't taste you 

i'd been underground 
'til the day that you called 
it's like you to send for 
the things that i've gone through 
the things that you know 
are so hard to hold onto 

but here you are, 
calling me, 
digging me 
out of my sleep. 

now i ain't no caretaker 
but i'll be your man-handler 
you've got your own flatliner 
since you wake the dead 
now you've got your prayers answered 
and you put a smile on me 
but i don't have to tell you 
just what it means 

i saw you, Death 
you reached out your hand 
the way women do 
when they want something else 
from a man 

your gauzy breath 
enfolded and jammed me 
into a jelly-like mold of myself 
i'll wait for you to melt 
'til i drip with joy 
that i got to dance with you 
long enough to know 
not to take you 
long enough to know 
not to take you 
home 
long enough to know 
not to take you 
long enough to know 
not to take you 
home 

now i ain't no caretaker 
but i was your man-handler 
you had your own flatliner 
since you woke the dead 
now you've got your prayers answered 
and you put a smile on me 
but i don't have to tell you 
just what it means.

Ice Box

trying not to look around in a crowd 
trying not to look around 
trying not to look around in a crowd 
trying not to look around 

she's got you 
in the one and only 
place you're safe 
in her head, you don't talk 
out of turn, out of taste 
she's got her eyes wide 
shut, she don't remember 
your face 
i've got my eyes wide 
i remember your face 

no card games or yahtzee 
just me & my schatzie 
i keep what i've got, see it's 
me & my schatzie 
me & my schatzie 
me & 

i ain't gonna meet you 
on the far side of the bed 
i am a middle child 
i'm here to claim 
the whole damn spread 
we've been hanging out, it's true 
me & my idea of you 
i can lose him if you help me 
see him out instead 

no card games or yahtzee 
just me & my schatzie 
i keep what i've got, see it's 
me & my schatzie 
me & my schatzie 
me &

Schatzie

do you have a god that you're over?
i worship the chip on my shoulder

do you have a god?
does he get what he wants?

Pree