mr. purple

u-bend

oh, mister purple,
always afraid you’ll do something awful.
please, mr. purple.
Be you.

old lonely bachelor
wandering in your silly garden
crunchy little white stones
pass the time.

tough to relate to harm now
got to make your dime now don’t you?
got to earn your own
bad pastimes.

tried and tried to be bad
tried and tried to be good
but

I’m the only one that I
really really truly can
feel for

so, mister purple. you’re
hanging from a tree this evening
fly mister purple.
go home.

tried and tried to be cool
tried hard not to be lame
and yet

I’m the only one that I
really really truly can
be.