Mission Bells

I've been in the narrow slashes
Velvet red and real as rashes
California's got me wanting more of
Four years. Get me from this Capp Street
Veneration. There came the kill
I know you well enough, you will and
Who'll be sleeping under mission bells?

Leave me here and let me go for
Oceans on two sides
Your optimism paralleled a wake in English tides
How they must soothe you, night, day and night

Hypocrisy has smashed that atavistic take
On my commitment, one mistake
How's the new kid, all the new truths and the vileness, god forbid
I lie here waiting while the Mission bells are ringing, ringing
Out over the city and the sunshine and the doubt