Last Ecstatic Liniment

Grandpa Moody was a bent old coot, he spent a dark and dreary life mislived
His wife long passed and his kin don't ask to see the wretch that kept them unforgived
Spent his years chasing off his fears or the thoughts of the ones he'd let slip by
Any drink or fume that mighta cured his dark humors was a drink or a fume that he'd imbibed

On a night spent stewing over wrack and ruin there a knock was heard and he answered it
Was a salesman selling up a bottle of hell he called the Last Ecstatic Liniment.

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Was a sure fire way to rub your pains away, whether those without or those within
Was a pure and natural bunch of herbs oil saturated to rub thee upon the skin
Seeds of Thornapple and a dram and a dabble of the distilled sweet and sleepy Dwale
The Henbell leaf to come and surely thief away the cares and caution made the sale

He paid his dollars but no mind to the hollers that he let out once he rubbed it in
Not a drop of spittle or sweat to belittle the fires he felt upon his skin

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For a day or two he was in a dark room and the demons was surrounding him
Each changing face made his old heart race to see the colored lightning skip and skim
He took off running towards a moon and sun or was it spirits calling up to him
His wings was feathered as he come untethered from a mind now falling bound and dim

The cool night air moved every hair on his naked form above the clouds
He smiled or grimaced at the thought within him that he'd never now once more come round

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So put another hundred coals on the fire and spend the best for last to spent
Don't fret no bills, don't fret no cold, don't fret no food or drink or rent
Ahead full steam if life is mean and cruel and no how makes no sense
If there ain't no difference put you down your pittance and buy you a bottle to see you hence

Nobody found him till the stink surrounded him and filled the crowded tenement
Some old man rotten on the floor and a bottle labeled Last Ecstatic Liniment

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