The Devil Said No

How do I impress ears courted by recycled grace
When I tried not to care, I took a glimpse fearful to stare.
I know why I grew bored from the woman I once loved
Because I want my blues heartfelt from the Devil's shoes.

Could I? Should I? Would I? Will I? To the Devil sell my soul for better Rock 'n Roll
I heard about Robert Johnson and the curse he brought to the '27 club'
But the Devil said no
To me he said no

Sure I remember where was I headed, why would he buy what was guaranteed to fry.
He said "you're gonna have to be you for the rest of your life boy",
I thought you would like to know
That the Devil said no
To me he said no.

I think I'm gonna have you when I'm done playing this tune
I think I'm gonna have you like we both know that I should
So don't you argue with me,
You know I can't be too long without having you
Too long without you.

Battery One Dollar-The Devil Said No

1) A Book Is Not A Book Without Its Smell Bloom there to loot in a wounded stanza with a confusing passwords. It’s a harsh way to reach across the empty ether to bed a friend. Johannes. By your own words this is a sermon, this is now revolt. And young Gutenberg preferred his intros with crescendos. Johannes. A Book is not a book without its smells, any fool could tell. You are fashion from a distance here you’re standing on your own. Hear me if you please, listen to my pleads, for all I know for sure is that I was on. Burn me with some scratch, I am 59’ Jazz, if you miss the hiss, well I had more to give. 2) My Friends Wouldn’t Dis You I want you maybe I want you baby, I want you maybe baby for awhile. Hold me till it’s time to crash, I know you as the indecisive type, though my interest will die on command, anticipation eats me up alive. Now I am losing sleep going against what I’ve preached. I know you as the immature type, a torture my libido demands. You know you got a longing, you know you got a longing heart, well get it right. My friends wouldn’t dis you, my friends wouldn’t mind. You know I could never miss you cause when we’re done we’ll say goodbye, we will say goodbye. 3) Tragedy In A Bench You are walking around with your head in the clouds and you don’t know what to do. You ain’t got a can to kick around so a bum on the ground will do. You are a very small man, a prelude to rocks against tear gas. A very serious charge against a serious man with a televised outcome. Rigged thyroid now we’re stunted growth, there’s no poetic empathy. You are a very small man, a novel a tragedy in a bench. It is bound to crack like a digger’s back with blatant fingerprints. Is not the dead you are grieving for, is for the company you’ll obtain. You are a very small man, an epilogue to an occupied page. 4) I’ll Never Leave You Love will never leave you overnight. Once it has reached you, it will never die. Freedom at our fences, freedom within a box. Love lives for lovers not for freedom in this world. I’ll never leave you, how can I live without you my darling. Well I don’t think I can. 5) Got Born So today has me nostalgic down to my shoes. There’s no need to hide I got the recycled blues. Here stoned stumbling instead of Rock n’ Roll, I wasn’t born to be clever but I did get born. So today has me whiskey bound to you. A carbon copied wedding of our nightmare’s womb. I hope you could hear me, yes I hope you could hear me cause I do my best to keep up with you. Yes I do my best to keep up with you. 6) Daniel Johnston Had It Right You said you can not remember what we never had. I’m no Daniel Johnston, Daniel Johnston had it right. It’s a believer’s veil to be a lonesome paddle for an arc, when I had imagined, imagined a drought. I am one with the sentence ‘madly in love’. Being true with my madness, being schooled by forensic notes. It’s the gentlest way to seduce you, the weakest anemic attempt. I’m no Daniel Johnston, Daniel Johnston said it first. The blur and falsehood, they make their stand. Don’t let delusions be the ones to hide. 7) Uncertain I feel I got here way too soon, I should not obsess over you. This I know that the love you bring it’s only mine to hold on tight. If it’s only a battle against time, waiting on forever might be right. If I could, I’ll prove to you that it’s not right to be apart. Love uncertain love, you offer me while I ask for more, say you’ll forever stay here with me, don’t you leave. Never have I met someone like you, to leave you now I can’t do. 8) I Didn’t Die At 24 Had I been the son of someone who gave a name maybe with less discretion I would be the same. But No one asked for me, no one asked for me. Half educated jubilated I am mostly drunk. I am a man to take my failures in my blemished soul. But no one sings with me obnoxious as only me, yeah no one asked for me. I’m not my father’s seed. And I didn’t die at 24 my scars and I, we’re just getting old. 9) My Obvious One The world is new but not vacant in borough and sleep. A mirrored compulsive replica of a snake’s tail gulp. My obvious one loves me and I love her so. When I’m sad she calls me so I could fell good. Well I had enough with the asking, “Why is she your choice?” Well have a little just a little, she’ll be yours. My obvious one loves me, my obvious one loves me, Maria Juana loves me and I love her so. 10) An Open Letter I’m not saying that you should go away but you promised more by today and it’s a long way off. The deals you don’t share is language of you own, like scriptures in the wind, designed to age in storms. And I feel young at heart but not naïve enough to last. So please don’t you break our hearts. Should you feel compel to restore the trust that at one point sold like blindfolds in a fall. It is up to you, so far the closest to the used. It has rhythm if it shakes, if it cripples it’s a loan. No one is here to borrow a dance from your load. When you were graffiti art, you were a movement not a compromise. So please don’t you break our hearts. 11) It’s A Cry And Wolf It’s a cry and wolf, proverb and ruse. Decapitated brand in a boy’s romance. It’s a flash of fraud in a billboard’s prose. A marketer’s crotch never says no. Holding loose will just not do. A celebrated glance of what one could have. Seems like a bargain, seems like a touch of divine intervention that one could afford. The hinting, the teasing, the push and the pull, the breakdown, the meltdown here to unwind.