Oil on canvas
Couplets and stanzas
To divine who you are
Pencil portrayals and
Jealous betrayals
Get you further afar

Refrain:
False faces and
Meaningless chases
I travel alone
First places and
Calendar races
I need a home

Hostile hotel walls
Footfalls and phone calls
And you're on the line
Gentle coercions and
Bitter desertions
When the truth is a lie

Refrain

Lover twice yearly
That last battle nearly
Cost me the fight
Broke through the ice
And got cut down
to size
And escaped
through the night

Refrain