Katie is a barmaid

She has fiery red hair and a love me only mouth

Her smiles warm like summer

Then pass

Like clouds before a rising moon

 

She’s over there

Just over there

I’m over here

Just over here

Drinking in wishes

Swimming in beer

 

She tongues pearly teeth

Hanging like a spinning spider

Upon every boorish indecipherability

Sparkling eyes liquid

 Widen

 

She’s heard all the stories

She’s made all the moves

Smoking in the banality where nothing improves

 

She’s over there

I’m over here

Topping up my sordid dreams

Still drinking beer

She’s heard all the sad songs with only one tune

Foul four lettered clockwork

Tick tock

Tick tock

It will be over soon

 

She’s over there

I’m over here

Bottling up frustration

Drowning in beer

She’s heard the drink talking, articulates each slur

Same again dear?

Life’s just a blur

 

She’s over there

I’m over here

Its bells past eleven

Time for more beer

She’s heard all about the wives at home

Through wide asleep eyes

How there’s no sex or caresses

Lie after lie

 

Katie is a barmaid

She has fiery red hair and a love me only mouth

Her smiles warm like summer

Then pass

Like clouds before a rising moon

 

She’s over there

Just

Over there

 

Over