Refrain from your numbing A dark fair is coming To your town The fruits of your labor Will offer no savior On our grounds Pinch closed your noses And kiss all the roses goodbye The sky is falling The children are crawling inside Here's your ticket Come right in Come in see the show Here the spirit won't grow And the mouth doesn't close It just swallows you whole
We're born into mystery and dotted in history We walk with a fist or a wave Some have whistles and bells, some the deepest of wells Some are free, some oblivious slaves Many glide with the grain and few guide with refrain But inside we remain much the same We are flesh over bone on the inside alone And our vying hearts battle our logical brain
Many will follow, the fearful, the hollow The shallow, the callow, the cohorts of creed But leaders don't lead 'less creating new leaders Upon which more leaders will seed Some will make claims to be prophets or saints But the faith will be flavored in fear A promise of hell will keep turtles in shells So approach with a cynical ear
There are angels and devils among us each exchanging blows One to the other, then each running for cover Each tugging ends of a thick wire rope On the opposite sides of a volcanic slope And anytime anyone pulls very far You can count on another tug back to the start So be it a deity, peasant, or czar An all-knowing wiseman or ill-burning star If you're basking in light or you're lost in the dark Asleep or awake in this moment you are We're all angels and devils and beggars and thieves We're fakers and fools with our hearts on our sleeves We're sulfurous serpents with gluttonous gaze That obscures the horizon in dazzling haze And the mouse cannot master this meddlesome maze But his willful submission will gather him praise
There you are so carefully plain 8 hours sealed in a jar A breakfast cake at a 10:30 stop Dance with me, bask in my limitless rays Over here feel my tentacles Slide through your curls Channels change But the glow stays the same
Children don't follow The swallowing mouth doesn't close Even the tallest trees Crawl from the smallest seeds souls
There you are so patient in vain A freedom you see from afar Any day til you make your escape Dance with me, bask in my chemical ways Are you there? Feel my chemicals Burn through your pours Patterns change But the ghosts still remain
Children don't follow The swallowing mouth doesn't close Even the tallest trees Crawl from the smallest seeds souls Inhale, Exhale, everybody's equal here