| will i always be as beautiful as i was those days
eating the big cheese, drinking whole cities dry
with my name in marquee lights?
i'm Marlon Brando and i want answers
are the forces of the universe easily evaded
by riding away endlessly on a handsome brown horse?
are there laws i can't laugh aside?
i'm Jesse fucking James and i don't want to die
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| my real mother is a giant tortoise at the bottom of the sea
dad is the king of everything in the deep
i was born down there where people can't go
so don't get any big ideas
the majesty! the colors! and all the little funny fishes
that i met my first summer.
all the swimming and all the laughter
with all my best friends underwater
secret secrets are no fun so i had to tell someone
yes it makes you special
yes it makes you better and you want to let it out
i won't be mad if you do
i might visit home when i'm two hundred years old
and you're cold dirt and bones
where i'm from, people are just big minutes
little hands to on the cosmic clock
and i'm the big one
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| time refused to march further towards a future that bleeds in waiting hurtling backwards, i nodded 'hello' to you when i arrived home the lights were out and all i could hear was morning sounds |
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| Guernica rises from the ashesas Dresden falls to its knees it feels like standing on wheels upon wheels |
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| let me take the place of a victim of some great war my orphan heart is riddled with holes that ache to be filled with bullets
i wouldn't run, i wouldn't scream not when the soldiers come by not even when the bombs crash i'd die fifty times if fifty's the last. |
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