From the recording SECONDS (pleasantries)

studio release
recorded and produced by Brian Macaluso at JSM Studios NYC Summer 1996
 
jim - guitars, voice
john lopos - bass, bowed double-bass
greg clarke - drums, percussion
 
written 1993 D train Manhattan bridge and Brooklyn NY
©(fitzgerald)

Lyrics

Seconds
 
What you know about that
Got a ring make me stop singing
Caught on the buttons of passers by sometimes
Saw the finger go like a mouse into its hole
Like a drop down the drain saw a metal stain
 
Peace boy, you’re never gonna feel again
Don’t worry boy, you’re never gonna fear again
 
Resistance, thought about wetness
What a fool I’ll try to forget this
 
Sounds like the master of a train
Let it rip (let it rip) let it rip
Like the grown of a life (let it slip)
To the others on the way...
Social inclination follows flies of yesterday’s sorrows
Mentioning the names of the ones
Who were lost on the land of no tomorrow
 
Peace boy, you’re never gonna feel again
Don’t worry boy, you’re never gonna fear again
 
Feeling tough like a peasant
Wish I had their peace but I’m too dependent
Solitary nature leads a path for everyone
Like a walrus in the woods I’ve just begun
 
Peace boy, you’re never gonna feel again
Don’t worry boy, you’re never gonna fear again
 
Bars of steel and nothing’s real
Like the fluid in my being