buddy holly said...

catefrances

jesse told me buddy holly told him
you can't save rock and roll
even if you wanted to it's only
for the lonely girls and boys

he said, all politicians are whores
way too eager to sell their soul...
...and yours
'cept you just don't know it
and even if you did
watcha gonna do about it anyway

he remembers when he first saw her
standing on the corner
across from the park where they all used to score
snow was falling, baby in her arms
she was looking like an angel all hellbound

cinnamon on her breath
nervous as a virgin on her wedding night
never wore no makeup, scar above her right eyebrow
wrapped in an overcoat two sizes too big

she says it was the one thing she kept
when she kicked her old man to the kerb
but looking at her then you knew that weren't true
baby's got his father's blue eyes
mama's just got the blues

buddy holly may have told him
you can't save rock and roll
but he never told jesse he couldn't
save his earthbound angel staring at hell
after so long she just went away
left him holding another man's child
crying at night for his mama to come back
to hug him, to hold him
tell him everything's gonna be alright