Coal

Once upon a time I said

boom shuka-lucka

boom-shuka-lucka

boom-shuka-lucka-lucka

BOOM

BOOM

BOOM!

And everyone in the town

well they all

RAN

RAN

RAN!

Once upon a time I cried all night

And everyone in town

floated on down

Once upon a time

      I snuck up on some

Who didn’t see me

            swirling in the sea

Once upon a time

      I was the whale

Holding you in my jail

Once upon a time

      life wasn’t fun

when you were

      blistering from the sun

            swollen from the sea

                  bitten by the moon

Once upon a time

      you knew my force

And how it directed your course

      into a ditch

It wasn’t a glitch.