The Green Pajamas

Three Way Conversation

sing sing sing to me sing
sweetly like you do
whisper those sweet nothings
all soft and violet and blue
sometimes the words are of wonderment
sometimes the song is sad
sometimes you get down under it
and the world goes all brilliant and bad

like the three way conversation
you and I had in the hall
when the one on the phone didn't even know
she was involved at all

high high in the Vancouver sky
with your body up against the glass
some memories last forever
but at the time they go by too fast

down down down we go
into that deep black hole
the memories of our innocence
lying in the bloody snow
sometimes I need a little mystery
sometimes I need a little fear
sometimes a little indecency
to go with this bitter beer

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by Jeff Kelly
c-1997 St. Brigid Publishing