To Ramona

Ramona, come closer
 Shut softly your watery eyes
 The pangs of your sadness
 Will pass as your senses will rise
 The flowers of the city
 Though breathlike, get deathlike sometimes
 And there's no use in tryin'
 To deal with the dyin'
 Though I cannot explain that in lines
 Your cracked country lips
 I still wish to kiss
 As to be by the strength of your skin
 
 Your magnetic movements
 Still capture the minutes I'm in
 But it grieves my heart, love
 To see you tryin' to be a part of
 A world that doesn't exist
 
 It's all just a dream, babe
 A vacuum, a scheme, babe
 That sucks you into feelin' like this
 I can see that your head
 Has been twisted and fed
 With worthless foam from the mouth
 I can tell that you are torn
 Between stayin' and returnin' on back to the South
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 You've been fooled into thinking
 The finishin' end is at hand
 Yet there's no one to beat you
 No one to defeat you
 'Cept the thoughts of yourself feeling bad
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 I've heard you say many times
 You're better than no one
 And no one is better than you
 If you really believe that
 You know you've got nothing to win
 And nothing to lose
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 From fixtures and forces and friends
 Your sorrow does stem
 They hype you and type you
 Making you feel like
 You gotta be just like them
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 I'd forever talk to you
 But soon my words would turn into
 A meaningless ring
 For deep in my heart
 I know there's no help I can bring
 Just that everything passes
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 And everything changes
 Just do what you think that you should do
 And who knows, maybe
 Someday, baby
 I'll come and be cryin' to you