Rainbow Trout

Thinnest lips, blue and white
 With the scent of Demerol above
 It would stink, it would cry
 Touching all extremities with lice
 Oh, sweet babe
 Don't cry
 Oh, sweet babe
 Don't cry
 An apartment, electric bulb
 Passing down the Technicolor boats
 On the TV, on the show
 In the hall of ugliness and love
 She would see it, comin out
 While she cooked the rainbow trout
 Forced its head down to the flame
 Pushed its eyelids up against its brain
 Oh it's quiet
 Sing to sleep tonight
 Hush, so quiet
 You I love, you I love
 Oh, sweet babe
 Don't cry
 Oh, sweet babe
 Don't cry
 As the body swith pain,
 It was thrown again and again
 Up against the fissured wall
 Covered in the bile of its maw
 Stung with insects, real and feigned
 It absorbed the scent from all its stain
 She would look down, blue and white
 Crush its head beneath the carving knife
 Oh it's quiet
 Sing to sleep tonight
 Hush, so quiet
 You I love, you I love