Old Man Perez - Mr. J. Medeiros

And when you hear this song

Measure you in years

Will the fingers of the blind

Find pleasure in your tears

Falling from your face

The way it wets your cheeks

And rests upon your lips

With this salty taste you speak

And those words form grounds

The pressure to exist

In a world with no one around

Is it the fear of a man

Or the fear of these mirrors and hammers

Falling down

I am Old Man Perez

I am as cold as any hand in death

I am what is left

A smile made of lead

A palladium’s head

A small pile of geraniums

Red as the earth now thrown

The surface now grown

Into the fleshy remains of roots now shown

Shes all covered

I’m uncovered

In the science of sleep the two become lovers

As sparrows do

Defining beauty in the order of life

If Camus knew

If Jean-Paul saw

In a room with no exit

You are beyond the walls

I’m searching for a face

In the sweating of the stones

Who robbed me of my faith

And said I’m better off alone

A writer gets away

A character set free

Though everything I am

Says he was better with Marie

But who knows

Maybe we’re just too young

To young at heart

So we go back to where we’re from

To gain our start

Now she and I are the same

Left to our eyes in the rain

Left to despise why we came

Left to the mind I am Cain

Able is my will to survive it again

And yet I do

If I never hear a yes I do

Kept by you I am but a trade I am just business

The patron Saint of lost interests

Like the bike you rode

In the street light left behind

When the times got old

I am just a taste

The face that you took and forgot

In a space full of books

And I am locked in the hook to a song

I have no looks

I do not play a long

My home

My bone and marrow

I am alone

I am the only sparrow

Frightened by the moon

The silence of it all

It lightens up your room

The nightingale she calls

Passing through the sky

Reminding you to sleep

The world is full of guise

Victory defeat

Victory defeat

Victory defeat

Victory defeat

I am your stranger now

Times are stranger