From the recording More Than Human (2006)
Arlene
Walking past a derelict doorway
Something strikes the lens of my eye
The image of a girl in a doorway
If I could shed tears I would cry
With skin as cream-on-creamy as butter
And blood as blue as Ariel’s glove
There’s nothing to be gleaned from this gutter
It’s time to find a new kind of love
Arlene Arlene
Arlene Arlene
Many dark and decadent volumes
Are stacked upon my library shelf
I see your face in many such volumes
I see you with the old man himself
Now I am but a vessel of conscience
At least that’s what the public discerns
You may be two quarts short of a conscience
But you have got a beauty that burns
Arlene Arlene
Arlene...Crazy Arlene
Arlene...
...Let us step through that temporal portal
...Where gravity turns on a dime
...Turn our backs on the world that is mortal
...Break through the shackles of time
Arlene...
...With seven black gems to adorn you
...And nothing but heaven to lose
...This is the life we were born to
...And this is the hell that we choose
Arlene Arlene
Arlene...Crazy Arlene
© 2006 David Cantor/Dashiell Road Music