Cherry Jubilee

Verse 1

Hello my friends

Please come inside

The hole in the wall

Of my mind

To wax pathetic

Anecdotes

Of a spoiled child

Drunken on hope

Who bled his heart at

A Coney Island

Wednesday nights

Awake and crying

Drinking till

I’m wrecking Ralph

A knockout before

A second round

A tip before my

Ticket's punched

Let the reaper drink first

If you must

A little wired

And slow to speech

An ode to joy

Within my reach

Chorus

A Cherry

Cherry

Cherry Jubilee

I would try love

But pain is undefeated

Cherry

Cherry

Cherry Jubilee

Verse 2

The bitter roots

Of family trees

Bad seeds and

Old wounds sown deep

Like a mothers love

Turned spoiled milk

Exercised by

Christian guilt

With tongues that lash

And fists that preach

A child’s pure soul

Baptized with bleach

And beaten with

A Bible belt

A living tapestry

Of weeping welts

As Jesús speaks

To Jesus freaks

My faith’s redeemed

By disbelief

I seemed to master

The devil’s trick

Convinced the world

I don’t exist

As heaven held

My family ransom

I never could

Live by their lessons

A let down brother

A sister's wrath

And buried hatchets

In my back

So sorry father

Your precious son

Is not the man

You thought he’d become

If you were alive

I couldn’t heal these scars

I’d still go diving

Off a bar

Chorus

In a Cherry

Cherry

Cherry Jubilee

I would try love

But pain is undefeated

Cherry

Cherry

Cherry Jubilee

I found the cure

But it’s my disease

Cherry

Cherry

Cherry Jubilee

The bitter roots of family trees

Will drag me deep

Deep into

Another hole

Verse 3

I’m a super hero

Incapable

An unheroic

Escape goat

For all the things

You want me to be

You could never

Be yourself

The deceitful truths

Got me drinking blind

I don’t even know

Why I’m “a lie”

No reason or

A rhyme explains

Why I’m so

Discombobulated

Please cut me out of

Those family pictures

Keep striking flames

And burning bridges

In case of fire

Don’t skip the steps

Some elevators

Lead to death

I’ll hold my breath

And look to the sky

And wonder

Will your sun shine?

Over in my woods

Where I’m safe from harm

But I don’t know

Just where I’ve gone

Tell the world

My secret's out

A child is buried

By that house

At the end of

Lament Street

I'll think of you

If I find peace

Chorus

In a Cherry

Cherry

Cherry Jubilee

I would try love

But pain is undefeated

Cherry

Cherry

Cherry Jubilee

I found the cure

But it’s my disease

Cherry

Cherry

Cherry Jubilee

The bitter roots of family trees

Will drag me deep

Deep into

Another hole