It's lisa, or laura, i know not her real name Which is probably pretty or something the same With her i spoke under, and lived under fed Without her i hang now, without her instead We die many times, and each new infancy Is a surprise ; that i have the tendencey To look over when it suits me, and decry when not When i am sailing, or when things go well Where this vision of death comes, she always leaves And i bury my head in my billowy sleeves To marvel at how i must face my own fate Or deny it, more likely, until it's too late When i could have kept on at her, with her, inside of her Instead of letting her weakness successfully hide her Her weakness and mine, the death of us both I was more violent, and she was more loath To see in me a promise of what i could give And i to see in her a reason to live Which was past just a symbol of woman and luck That i would never be lacking for something to fuck And one to fuck over when things would decide That it was once again time to go for a ride We felt we must seize the weather, and never the whim To be led by the other and not the whithin