Friend Skeleton

I could see the pain,
the sadness, from a
mile away

He could feel his own madness
but he
smiled anyway...

You can see him on a crooked track
Grinnin like a fool
I see him on the same track
a slave to his tool

Friend skeleton
My Friend skeleton

On a school day
Texas way
Hotter than hell

He struck a pose
Too close
To sex he could sell

On a hard road
On young toes
Determined to go

Ignorin pain
To stay sane
His daddy's below

Friend skeleton
My Friend skeleton...

I learned to trust his heart
Never trust his mind
I befriended the child-like abandon
in his psychedelic eyes

And where his fingers roamed on strings
His hungry soul found everything
To consume
To enjoy
To touch
Too much
of the time
The time...

Friend skeleton
My dear friend skeleton...

In the night heat
back seat
We're singing along

To Offspring
anything
We couldn't go wrong

Teenaged
Full of rage
mixed with the smoke

High speed
Full of need
Goin for broke

Friend skeleton
My Friend skeleton

Hazy Saturday nights
Broken by streetlights
Blazin past us on our highway to hell

In the thick of the haze
He couldn't see the maze
Liquid demons sought his soul to sell

He was shakin apart
From the grip on his heart
His tears and laughter echoed throughout the town

The clock kept spinnin along
Moving the rest of us on
But the chains of his shadows held him down...

Ghost of his skeleton
My friend skeleton...

Ghost of his skeleton
Hauntin shadows where his dreams had been
Ghost of his skeleton
In the wind...

I could see the pain
He could feel it

The sadness
in his madness

A mile away
He
smiles anyway...