When I was just a little boy I threw away all of my action toys While I became obsessed with Operation With hearts and minds and certain glands You gotta
Just think of the lives you could swap with your own While you're selling your coats, you're sewing your own You know it's not the easy way Sometimes
Those that will judge Will say you're aloof But you know the truth is a seed You know what you need Is a conflagration 'Cause when I see your blood And
Get out your measuring cups And we'll play a new game Come to the front of the class And we'll measure your brain We'll give you a complex and we'll give
I run the numbers through the floor Here's how it goes I crack the codes, I crack the codes that end the war I crack the codes that end the war The hour
I'm just an old youth with a cane made of root And a dog with a nasal disease I sit when it's breezing, my dog's always sneezing I swear it's the voice
In the salsify mains of what was thought but unsaid All the calcified arithmetists were doing the math It would take a calculated blow to the head To
I got home this morning With the sun right in my eyes And there was no warning Yes, it took me by surprise As it hit me like an act of God Causing my
lonely, whoa My skin is white as parchment Drier than a downtown office building Where the air is tight There's time spent waiting for that Macrame bird
Five day forecast bring black tall rains and hellfire While handpicked tenderness kid gloves tear at the inseam Their Halliburton Attache cases are useless
Some people wake up on Monday mornings Barring maelstroms and red flare warnings With no explosions and no surprises Perform a series of exercises Hold
You were right There was never reason to worry Money made your eyesight all blurry Making lists of pacifists Recalcitrant poses Can't you see how dangerous
The finches and sparrows build nests in my chimney What remains of the small flightless birds that you failed to protect But the yoke isn?t easy, in fact
See a sea anemone, the enemy see a sea anemone And that'll be the end of me While the vicious fish was caught unawares In the tenderest of tendrils See
When I wake up in the morning Pour the coffee and I read the paper An' then I slowly and so softly do the dishes And feed the fishes Sing me "Happy Birthday
will meet on a fatal shore Souverian, souverian, the elder Souverian, souverian the free Souverian, souverian we felt her So very young, so very young were we Birds
Tenuous at best was all he had to say When pressed about the rest of it, the world that is From proto-Sanskrit Minoans to Porto-centric Lisboans Greek
Don't sell me anything Your one time offer so uncalled for, you call it piece of mind 'Cause I can see your house from here Now leaves have fallen, dear
