You And Me And Rainbows

The Tear Garden

You're number eight 
You're name is Jane
With black hair, braids 
And black lines around your eyes
Shades to hide your habit
I don't know your age
Though you guessed mine
My sign, your sign
The opening line is always just the same
The same intention
Destination: You and me and the rainbows

Loaded guns attract
We know the rules - we don't react
We wait in hope - we don't expect
Just you and me and the rainbows

Down here everything is fine
We have a straw, we have a line
We have a bag, a rock, a mountain
With a string of shepards driving lions
Aiming skewers at the sheep
Face down, asleep in onion fields
The frying fields
The worms they peep through holes
Which once were eyes
They blythe, they bake
Although we painted out the sky and the sun
There's only thunder
And you and me and the rainbows

Let's hide out in the lay-by
Let the time fly by
Tonights disguise - a car crash
With our wheels like shattered stars
Out dashboard charred
A windscreen like a graveyard for the flies
We're fast, fast, fast, fast, fast
Maggot - hungry flies are circling
Mourning as the watchers squat
With cameras, cakes and flasks
They're spitting, spitting as the blue lights flash
Axes, axes, axes swing
Broken wings.  Broken wings.
But we'll still fly and we'll reach our destination
You and me and the rainbows

If we turn the lights down low
And watch the sky climb through the window
Will I watch your fingers grow
And stretch like butterflies in the shadows
Flexing, licking toes and binding as slowly
The sun sets on the same old hill
The same red glow - we're quite alone
Just you and me and the rainbows

Everything I own is in the corner of your room
It's covered with a sheet just like it died
But I will take a broom, sweep it new again
Arrange it - oh, I'll grow a dozen hands
No, I never will neglect my world again
I'm safe beneath my blanket - come home
For you for me and the rainbows

Loaded guns attract
We know the rules - we don't react
We wait in hope - We don't expect
Just you and me and the rainbows
Looking down