If you were to become
cleaner than your surroundings
we'll take our meal in motion
we'll sacrifice our shoe string
tamp and load the barrel
the oath is chewed and swallowed
prepared to play the coward and
the pusher and the poker
the glands that keep us thieving
telling lies apologizing
for our love of country
dirt and tree bug river
blue jay chair leg
parking meter pinwheel sport coat
rudder bucket telescopic
I mean my denomination
I mean I point my finger and
it shoots I mean how many
ways can you say your heart
has been smeared apart
these songs about music I mean
a chorus of living tissue I mean
how many ways can you say that
you are speaking I mean
a 3rd cousin's lost address
I mean I think my tooth is talking
I mean I wear a human skin