This Means Nothing

Prelude

The moon shined over a funeral feast

A possessed nun swallowed a priest

Four stupid clouds misplaced the sky

While Santa taught December to fly

The beech sneezed and turned into glass

Then a donkey got kicked in the ass

Five shadows braided the morning’s fog

A headless banshee delivered its dog

Saturn wept diamonds from a tarnished spoon

As velvet thunder invaded the room

The attic rehearsed a confession in French

While galaxies danced on a splintered bench

A comet replaced its heart with a wire

As windows rehearsed the funeral choir

Verse 1

A porcelain raven swallowed the moon

Black roses argued with a silver spoon

My shadow wore Tuesday like cheap perfume

Pre-Chorus

The staircase coughed up seventeen bells

While velvet spiders rented empty shells

Chorus

The coffin forgot my name at dawn

A headless candle put its stockings on

Three dead clocks danced beneath the floor

While midnight crawled through a purple door

I asked the darkness to borrow a shoe

It screamed, “The cathedral is allergic to blue”

Post-Chorus

A skeleton sneezed inside my tea

Then mailed its elbows back to me

Verse 2

The chandelier married a crooked crow

Six phantom potatoes refused to glow

A violin barked at the falling snow

Pre-Chorus

My reflection purchased a bag of despair

Then combed the teeth of an empty chair

Chorus

A gargoyle melted into marmalade

While thirteen ghosts formed a funeral parade

The ceiling wore a widow’s black hat

A haunted piano became a bat

Two tombstones whispered into a glove

And Dracula accidentally ordered a dove

Post-Chorus

The wallpaper swallowed a rusty key

As a dead umbrella climbed a tree

Bridge

I buried tomorrow beneath my bed

But tomorrow complained that yesterday was dead

A black cathedral grew from my knee

Then politely asked for eternity

The moon removed its porcelain face

And rolled down the hallway screaming, “SPACE!”

Verse 3

A velvet coffin learned how to swim

The candles grew eyebrows painfully grim

A ghost ate Wednesday limb by limb

Pre-Chorus

Seven black mirrors began growing hair

Seven black mirrors began growing hair

While a crimson staircase floated nowhere

Chorus

The cemetery opened a lemonade stand

A demon misplaced his detachable hand

The organ developed a fear of cheese

As funeral curtains attacked the breeze

A marble angel swallowed a clock

Then danced with a boot made entirely of chalk

Post-Chorus

The crypt wore lipstick made from rain

While a spider conducted a runaway train

Verse 4

A raven exploded into antique lace

The basement borrowed my grandmother’s face

A pumpkin confessed to murdering space

Pre-Chorus

The moonlight knitted a coffin from bread

While invisible horses painted themselves red

Chorus

A black rose screamed through a telephone bone

The castle declared itself legally a scone

Nine velvet witches dissolved into soup

A gargoyle escaped through a chandelier hoop

The graveyard sneezed out a porcelain fish

Then Satan arrived with a satellite dish

Post-Chorus

A phantom teacup swallowed the night

And Thursday vanished from human sight