Learning To Sleep Alone (In so many beds)

I'm learning to sleep alone,

In so many different beds,

It's not like I have a home,

So I'm always looking

For someone to let

Me rest my head.

I used to be a faithful man,

Or I like to think I did,

All those old friends tell me,

I'm just a charlatan.

I've got wolf eyes,

Wolf teeth,

A wolf tongue

Stalking beaches and bars

Around shallow seas.

Well what would she think,

If she could see me,

Tangled in all those bed sheets,

Eyes burrowing into pillow smiles

Night out over after two drinks.

What do they see, looking back

And smiling, fumbling for keys?

Forgive me, I seem to have

Misplaced my dignity.

It's probably sitting, dropped and

Discarded as cheap

In the sand beneath

Distant longbeach palm trees.

She took that when she left too.

But I'm beautifully broken

Even as my ego is shaken

Laying in Baghdad's smoking ruins.

I'm more alive and dead than

I've ever been,

She took all I had of worth,

Played with it, bored, threw it away;

But gave me freedom in the end.