Standard (EADGBE)

Seconds from pajamas I must first open all the doors

and the windows

and invite the vampire in to be one of us.

Then, in the guise of cool air, in the softer hours,

he's there, sitting, talking

in the voice of your mother

about leaving one good party for another

and the night of a thousand missteps

and the loss that made him dogged

or it could have been the doggedness

that caused the loss in the first place, I guess.

I'm discovering uses for you I thought I'd never find.

I could've made chancellor without you on my mind.

Crazy daisies and wooden stars,

the threat of oxygen on Mars,

marching armies in the night

smiling strangers riding by on bikes.

Children smoking, sloganeers on mics,

just a few things most vampires don't like.

I'm discovering uses for you I thought I'd never find.

I could've made chancellor without you on my mind.

Before the dawning's first light

I must first close up all the doors and the windows

and try to trap that cool air to be one with us.

I'm discovering uses for you I thought I'd never find.

I could've made chancellor without you on my mind.