the mechanism of permanence

ideals are peaceful;
the history of love is violent...

I would've been better at war,
than I am at life...

so when I play the piano
and she sings German folk songs...

worship drinks from our shared limb,
and I have given my heart to hang from a tree.

your beauty is vacant,
because you have chosen your own fate. 

I will give my love to a scarecrow
before I ever give it to you again.