Joey

Joey where did you
Learn to turn your face into a sunny morning?
Bulb with yellow petals round it
Did they tell you I was there collecting bottles
Trying to drink my way up through the rain beside you
Joey

The joy on your face
Got replaced with something dark and unfamiliar
The flower’s now a nomad
Who’s out on the street
Picking through a garbage can and I’ve been wondering
How can I be bad when you’re bad?
Joey

Joey when did you
Learn to turn your eyes into those
Dim twin half moons
I don’t know how you see through them
Did you know that yesterday I idolized you
So then tell me how tonight could I despise you?
Joey

Are you in there?