Black Rainbow - Silverman

Spend our money on distractions

To displace our emotions

Exhaust sleeps with ambition

In overpriced accommodation

With telephone and bills

Everybody’s shouting

And all I feel is dirty

Everything’s distorted

By rays of different waves

To make it all look normal

To make it feel ok

I know you really want me

But you can’t have me

I think I’ll sit in this window

I think I’ll tease you

I think I’ll please me

Something’s you’ll never know

Like what’s at the end of my black rainbow

You know we’ve been cabled in

With intellectual morphine

We want to be outrageous

But we don’t even know it

Only victory’s impressive

The vanquished are neglected

Honesty’s rejected

All I fell is dirty

All I feel’s complicit

Now I’m not playing for a gallery

Or some index linked academy

We get all judgmental

I know you really want me

But you can’t have me

I think I’ll sit in this window

I think I’ll tease you

I think I’ll please me

Something’s you’ll never know

Like what’s at the end of my black rainbow

Words best left unexplained

Places you’ll never go

Like all the way to the end of my black rainbow