Surgery Songtext
von Frontier Ruckus

I approach my coach to tell him the anesthesia wore off
And then a loose cough crackles accolades in spades for me
Should I pour us up to the Rosen Market
Maybe you meet us with the Taurus and you park it there
The air is sweet with bare summer feet and cucumber scented hair
The sun is wetting heads of sweating girls and pretty smells
It swells and swirls and wanes
And the surgical wound is twisted deep like the sheets on a summer bed
And I′m marooned in the summer weeds behind Sylvan Lanes instead
And all the life behind Sylvan Lanes it wanes till it is dead

Keego Harbor trailer park beneath my parents' upper room
They had one too
Pet love in the sweat of forgetful heavenly days
I got some Mackinac Island characters where my toothy youth decays
When we would take Orchard Lake Road to the St. Mary′s Fair
Your first cellular phone and the tone of the blown out speaker
Like spine in the pebbly asphalt
Electrically wind through the trebly assault
When the sidewalk caulk at the fault line scuff your sneaker


Disposable camera prints
Leaning in the door jamb squints
The figure of my dad and the body he had
When he was shirtless and hero
Driving to Intramero
For soccer travel fair in a Chevy Cavalier
And though I was puerile when comfort was near
I genuflect on the kindergarten rug where I chugged all my pure life
A clunky TV cart and the sunken eyesight
A sleepy-eyed departure of a dream

Now I'm feeling like a phony up at Kirby's Coney Island
And the parents taking decades and
The pathos just parades its wickedness

So sad all the love that we had dissolves to an abyss

With summer ski hills where my newcomer
Skills once skid in winteriness
Till the kid crashed
And red-faced shame as the world′s only aim
And my spoiled Christmas gifts got stashed
I could hear strange percussion in the depths of the concussion
Like the fireworks that once splashed in Sylvan Lake

The sun punch and summer deodorant forced me to awake
To my mother′s laugh