keep em in your mind


you better love the needle
you better love the junkie
you got to keep em in your mind
you got to keep em both in your mind
better love the vermin
better love the swine
keep em in your mind
better keep em all in your mind
eat the fruit
but love the rind
keep em in your mind
cause
flowers don’t need your love
endless sky don’t need your love
angels don’t need your love
even god don’t need your love
cast away your fear
Don’t rest your love on something near
cast away all your derision
and trade it for a fairer vision
of all men freed from
flawed men’s judgments

Love the man
who strikes his brother down
the hand that shakes
the faultless babe
in it’s sleeping gown
keep em in your mind
keep em all in your mind
love the unrepentant thief
and the man whose only love
is wine.
keep em in your mind
keep em all in your mind
give your love to that fallen angel
a sadder heart you’ll never find
don’t rest your love on plates of plenty
but on the hearts of those maligned
by a world that casts its judgments
before it offers shelter
or shepards all the blind

rest your love on the serpent’s head
on the slowly dying
and the living dead
love those of us down in the gutter
as you love the one above
love the filthy pigeon
just as you love the dove
beat your hand against the awful wall
just as others beat their book
shout not for your transgressor’s head
but offer him a gentle hand
and from your eye a loving look
fortune doesn’t need your love
nor prosperity, or gain
the son of god don’t need your love
better save it for the rain

cast away your hatred
cast away your fear
rest your love on misery
and not the joy that’s safe and near