I Need A Bucket Of Water Poem by Mark Heathcote

My hearts on fire
I need a bucket of water
Just to cool my head
Joy is a Furness
Can you hear the hiss?
I read the orioles
They tell me I'm going
Straight to hell
But I'm as happy
As I've ever been
Joy is a thunder
Underground

I confess to a priest
The crops are failing
And I've got nothing,
More to give
The silo is empty, lord
But I'm not repentant
My legs are shaking
And I'm walking on the moon
And the neighbours-
Next-door seem upset
There's another rodeo
Twister in town

My hearts on fire
I need a bucket of water
Just to cool my head
Joy is a Furness
Can you hear the hiss?
Love is a rattlesnake
She wants me to beat
The chaff till I just fall-down.
I confess I'll be happy.
As baptized priest
When I go to hell
Grasp the nettle
Catch flames when the thunder
Reigns down

Oh lord I'm as happy
As I've ever been
Joy is a thunder
Underground
Where the sweet
Spring, springs froth
And floods the room
Up, up from the ground.