There's Always Another Me

There's always another highway
That takes you to another town
There's always a button on the telephone
That takes you to another line

There's always a call for action
There's always a need for fiction
There's always
A savage
And a saviour
And a coward
In the corner
And a fire
Looking wilder
In the photograph

There's always another me

There's always another stairway
Going up to paradise
There's always another hungry candidate
Telling me to get in line

There's always a call for action
There's always a role in my fiction
There's always
A cheater
And a charmer
Looking better
In the mirror
And a brother
Looking younger
In the photograph

There's always another me

There's always another pirate
Blowing up another ship
There's always another stinky righteous mate
Surrendering with blood on his lip

There's always a call for action
There's always a hole in my fiction
There's always
A sailor
And a singer
On the shoulder
Of a hooker
With a secret
In the locker
And a photograph

There's always another me

There's always a confrontation
There's always a death in option

There's always
A driver
Going faster
In the right lane of another
And a crooner
Singing lower
In the phonograph

There's always a husband
And a loner
In the basement
Of a gambler
And a priest
Above a sinner
And a God
Blessing a wife
For teaching him
How to play poker
And a fighter
Crying louder
Than the kid
That don't know better
And an actor
And a soldier
And a fool
Waiting for love
Around the block
And there's me