Wrote a small time song for my neighbourhood choir for my kid at home, my band for hire found a cancer hook in a bank of songs among the da-da
found some chicken wire, a plastic bag a clothesline full of golden rags found some graffiti on my China plates got a happy hammer for the refined tastes
and now the school yard's clean, the basement's full of all the dandelions the kids could pull found some entitlement, some hipster swag a conversation for my vanity page
and now the typewriter's dead but not the church bell song I see our future lit in the lights of Hong Kong I got my Christmas faith, the angels shine from the lips of the freeway to the shadows of...
the carnival lights on the cheeks of your face, promises on the blades of your teeth carnival lights on the cheeks of your face, will you take what you will receive?
found a quicksand smile, a manhole stare a mad-dog-with-AIDS alarm system 'beware' got some concrete love, a strap-on lie a pedestrian crime, the alibi
got my secret world and my modern rash for the window-shopping eyes, aristocratic trash got a heart of gold, some germs of steel and I serve my excuses on banana peels
so let the sunshine crash on all your private parts and if the dog's in heat, embrace the bark let's make a rendez-vous, turn the lights down low and do the cheekbone dance until the trumpets blow