Cruel and uncomplicated - Richard Edwards

The soft ache of a phantom limb

Came upon me again

And in a burst of benzo

Crawled up under my skin

The soft ache of your name…

Last night I dreamt I was dying

And the liquor just made me sicker

Under the strobe

You came out of the past

Rolled in like a river

Boring a hole through my ozone layer

Out of the past, dripping like a dog in the moonlight

Or the absence of love

But, gurl, I would John Wall this club to the ground

If it’d burn you memory down

Hey, mama

I miss you, that’s all

It only happens when the moon’s this full

Or when the rain falls hard as new year’s bullets

And the sky is red

When I imagine it, it’s so

Cruel and uncomplicated

I’m gonna be lonesome when I don’t know you anymore

Will you unglue when I am just

A piece of the past?

And does it ever end?

Of course it does

It did

But I could not imagine it, my love

Us being strangers

In a gentle wisp, the ghost then fades

Into something like 'time'

Forgive me

I am unsure of my mind

The soft ache and the moon

Suppose I say to you, 'Brooklyn'

'Encinitas'

Or 'endless summer'

We couldn’t know…

Then you come out of the past

Roll in like a river

Boring a hole through my ozone layer

But it’s alright

I forever reside in my mind

Yes, all the time

In the land where you love me

When you thought I would take Manhattan

Like a muppet

Hey, mama

We lost it, that’s all

It started fading on the beach that fall

Before it blew apart like the princesses planet

My empty head

Could not imagine we could be so

Cruel and uncomplicated

Cruel and uncomplicated

Cruel and uncomplicated