Work, Not Play letra

The bell rings . . .
It's a decade past my decadence
My beast wears rings and he's waiting
In the shadows of my hesitations, my silent
Hesitations . . . Each image is so clear;
It seems I have no hands
The gestures of the air confuse all my demands

And the beast hears the bell; he comes
Out of the shadows. He rips apart the shadows . . .
And he says:

"This is work and not play"
And he says:
"There's always more than one way . . .
This is work not play"

Refrain:
I see the ghosts of my childhood . . .
Dressed in blue, they trail me in the night
They drive these cars with real upholstery
They trail me until . . . here comes the night

She was standing, standing on the balcony
Her black, black eyes folded over her eyelids
Like sheets on motel beds . . .
She must be eatin' reds
This place is filled with mirrors
It echoes what she said
And she said:


"I need a judgement day"And she said:
"I know there's more than one way,
But I want my judgement day . . ."

Repeat Refrain

To sleep without dreams
So distant from the mirror
Imitating clarity, disguising
All the terror . . . I heard a thousand bells
From a thousand old cathedrals
They rang . . . I haven't heard them since
A decade past my decadence
The beast hears the bell

I'm cursed to be a singer
A singer of the flames
A thinker of a fire
And a son without a name

Jim Carroll - Letras

• (No More) Luxuries
• Barricades
• Black Romance
• Catholic Boy
• City Drops Into the Night
• Crimes of Passion
• Crow
• Dance The Night Away
• Day And Night
• Desert Town
• Differing Touch
• Dry Dreams
• Evangeline
• Falling Down Laughing
• Freddy's Store
• Hairshirt Fracture
• Hold Back the Dream
• I Don't Hear You
• I Want The Angel
• I Write Your Name
• It's Too Late
• Jealous Twin
• Jody
• Junky Man
• Lorraine
• Lorraine (Opening poem)
• Love Crimes
• Low Rider
• Nothing Is True
• People Who Died
• Perfect Water
• Plain Division
• Pools of Mercury
• Rooms
• Still Life
• The Beast Within
• Them
• Three Sisters
• Voices
• What's Number One
• Wicked Gravity
• Work, Not Play