Parakeet Bones from Dream Vacation by Luke's Terrarium

I was a Salt Lake City skinny dipper
I was bound to fail
You were born on a train
I was born on a monorail

I paid my Greyhound fare
in a long forgotten currency
Got the window seat
All the way to Vegas via SLC

saw a lotta lost time
in the canyon walls
and skulls of pack mules
All I’m leaving behind
Is some salt, some light,
some burned up fossil fuels

I ain’t ever met no one without
something buried out back
just parakeet bones in a box
beneath the lilacs

I’m a sin city slicker
Swisher Sweet sipper
ash tray licker
Colorado River Motel 6
Sauna hot rock skipper
la la la lake Michigan
fa fa fa fa fisher of men

Got a long dead dog
who didn’t die for your sins
just a skeleton in the closet
coming back to him

faint reflection
in the midnight window
was my own
River pebble in my palm
I knew I could not cast a stone

I ain’t never met no one without
something buried out back
just parakeet bones in a box
just parakeet bones in a box
just parakeet bones in a box
beneath the lilacs

la la la la lake Michigan
fa fa fa fa fisher of men

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