COTTON KEYS
(Music & Lyrics by Billy Van Haifen)

I'm leaving my home now
There's nothing I really want to take with me
to save from the hell my life consists of, it grew old on my own

It's been its last word
The fire now is blue and the smoke is the imitation of my happy world,
my empire of lies and jokes, my beautiful silent song

It's always been the same
Back and forth but at last it's found a laid back place
It's sitting on my lap, can I go against that


Will it ever be back? To share with me its past
To bring me back the magnetism of the easy happiness
Will it ever be back? To let behind the scars
That never let me look on the bright side and smile while I belch


And every other day
Right away I figure out there's nothing say
As strange as it might seem, it's my voice, so to speak

I'm fishing for my bright
It's said to be deep inside my young and tired head
I'll look for it in the sky of my dusty pain

It will never go, It did never lose, It did never…

Will ever it be back? To fill in this sore gap
That let my illusion behind by the time it left
Will it ever be back? To bring me back that toy
That used to turn my tears into smiles and the sadness into laughter


It did never go, my sweet lazy hole, killing, touching me, oh no …

There's little likelihood of,
of waking up and of realising all I dreamed was not
really in my skin, just dirtied my nails.