Mr. Bitterness

<br>(M. Doughty)<br>There is a bar they call The Bitter Sea.<br>And she sits and drinks a velvet crush--that`s<br>Kool Aid and gin--casing the clientele<br>Like a relentless cameraman. She is<br>Elsewhere. She says You keep a-knocking<br>But you can`t come in, and I say<br>Little Sister, don`t you do what your Big Sister does<br>Spiral down down down down down down down<br>Well desire looks just like you with an uzi nine<br>Gundown fifteen bystanders in a roadside driveby<br>Desire is the grassfire drinking gasoline<br>And she says Open up your mouth, man, let me come inside<br>Spiral down down down down down down down<br>She cracked<br>Now they call me Mr. Bitterness<br>She snapped<br>Now they call me Mr. Bitterness<br>She`s gone,<br>Gone gone<br>Aaah, leaning up against the wall<br>I will lash out dancing like a madman when you`re gone<br>I will spit the blue flame and hurl my glass against the wall<br>And I will hear your name coming out from a boom box<br>I will hear your name called out from passing cars<br>Spiral down down down down down down down<br>She cracked...