She's A Hard Drink - Daniel Amos

There’s a sad clown

A slapstick comic with a neon crown

Here’s a mean street

Up the miracle mile through the demon heat

There’s a ghost town

In a diamond-studded gown

And it’s about to take another one down

She’s a hard drink

A valentine bed so pretty in pink

I’m a heartthrob

A back-alley cat and a junkyard dog

She’s a slow leak

And she leads me up the creek

We’ll lights the skies up

Dim-bulb lovers like me

Are too late to wise up

Between old thighs

A new sheen, same lies

She’s a bad dream

Like an Adam’s Apple on a beauty queen

There’s a vulture picking me clean

She kicks the dust up

It’s seeping out of my skin

I’m good with bad luck

I die, she shrugs

A new high, same drugs

She’s a slow leak

And she loves to watch me sputter and sink