Pretty Blues

I've been watching these horror scenes
Play out in everyday life
You've been smoking like kerosene
Setting half the prairie on fire

Half my life was in Kodachrome
Now it's all pixelation
You've been sleeping like chloroform
Plotting deliberations

They been talking 'bout paradise
Sleeping on a rich man's couch
They been swarming like parasites
Looking for a quick way out

Half my life was a mystery
Now it's all tattered and torn
They been working to find a key
To lock us out in the storm

They say every day brings anew
The means to change in your head
I say whatever that means to you
Write it all down before bed

Half my life was a metaphor
Something you failed to explain
Now you'll say it's all lost on me
And now I'll have to refrain