Jim Carroll Pools Of Mercury Lyrics

Pools Of Mercury Lyrics

Sirens begin, the red light spins

Hungry go the thieves



Betty's in the sandbox trying to detox

She always wears long sleeves



Desdemona in a red kimona can't get off the bench

Her bolts are fused, her limbs can't move

Someone better find a wrench



Got no past, they can't last

Future's like a curse

What's best for them is always bought 

at the price of something worse



Wren's heart of ashes, the glue-on lashes

Her baby's in a Brillo box

She's on one knee with key after key

Trying to find the right lock

By the pulp of her fears 

and the shape of her tears

you can tell tomorrow's weather

She bends her skin in the shape of her sins

To keep herself together



Got no past, they can't last

The future's like a hearse

What's best for them is always bought 

at the price of something worse



Got no past, I can't last

The future's like a curse

I'm swimming in pools of mercury

Making sense of the end of the century



They want to -- outside

They want to -- outside

They want to scream outside

They want to search outside

They want to lose outside

They want to beg outside

They want to have sex outside

They want to -- outside

They want to pray outside

They want to buy outside

They want to dream outside

They want to pine outside

They want to -- outside

They want to sleep 

They only want to be alone outside



Carl's been burned

Better return him back to central casting

Jen grows weaker her soul sneakers

Are useless without laces

So she rides the snake till she grows wings

And flies to better places



Got no past, they can't last

The future's like a hearse

What's best for them is always bought 

at the price of something worse



Got no past, I can't last

The future's like a curse

I'm swimming in pools of mercury

Making sense of the end of the century



It's dawn, their faces worn

Rain like a female feathers

I'm swimming in pools of mercury 

Making sense of the end of the century



Got no past, they can't last

The future's like a hearse

What's best for them is always bought 

at the price of something worse