I'm the best you'll ever have   You're the best I'll never have      Pain...   Gone.   Rain...   Stop.   Sun...   Shine.   You're...   Mine.      Here kitty kitty kitty      MOMMY MOMMY MOMMY MOMMY MOMMY      Listen:   listen through the walls   the sound of quick footsteps sneaking down the hall   whispers   the pages turning   the leaky roof   the toilet flushing   numbers on the license plate      I'm nothing more than   The best you'll never have   A speck on your bedroom wall   A blood red waterfall      THE BEST YOU WILL EVER HAVE      Your dead things are locked up inside   Blow smoke rings straight back in time   Roses floating out with the tide   Dance and sing under gunfire   Open wings slowly take flight...      Around these parts a fly can live---   A fly can live a thousand years   but a man cannot die soon enough, true enough      A smiling drunk nursing a glass of milk   A girl with a face like prison bread   Over the kitchen noise I hear them howl at me      A scabby ketchup bottle and a two-dollar bill   I guess its time to pay the bill, but you know I never will   I'm hungry still...      RUN AWAY RUN AWAY RUN AWAY RUN AWAY      Mercy killing on the way   Never thought I'd hear you say   Falling to your knees and pray now...      In this crowded place I could swing a cat   And not even hit a soul...   It's just the lonely vacuum of human black holes      And I'm as dry as these thirsty trees   with big city thoughts in the dirty breeze...   promising to set me free   "waiter, check please..."      I'M THE BEST YOU WILL EVER HAVE