Modelo. El bastardo (Daniel )
Autor. Leonardo Medina
México Df 2007

Ghoul

Is that a free dollar bill just lyin' in the street?
No, there's no such thing.
Is that a rainbow shinin' through the storm I see?
No, there's no such thing.
Is that the face of the LORD in the wood of the door?
No, there's no such thing.
Is there a toad in the stone two million years old?
No, there's no such thing.

Well, the blade in the pit is danglin' by a thread.
There's a buzzard on my bedpost, a bone in my leg.
My dogs are barking at the voices in my head,
When will they learn there's no such thing?

Is that good news ringing on the party line?
No, there's no such thing.
Or rapture divine from the Kingdom of Nigh?
No, there's no such thing.
Is it a free giveaway of a black Cadillac?
No, there's no such thing.
The Tooth Fairy wantin' all his money back?
No, there's no such thing.

Well, believe it if you want it don't matter to me.
Paint the treetrunks white on a dead oak tree.
Your scaffoldboards are squeekin' every step of the way.
When will you learn there's no such thing?

Is that a bluebird singin' in the canopy?
No, there's no such thing.
Or the last ray of hope beatin' down on me?
No, there's no such thing.
Is it an old-fashioned girl with a dark raven curl?
No, there's no such thing.
A sweet siren song of a long-lost world?
No, there's no such thing.

Well, the core of the earth is a heart full of hate.
I might have a soul but it ain't got a mate.
So just water my weeds Decoration Day,
I guess I never learned there's no such thing.

(c) 2006 J.D. Wilkes