A cold and lonely in an old New York hotel A stranger to a city she used to know so well Bathing in a bathroom that is in the first blue light Of the beginning of a at the end of an endless night
Then she is wet behind the ears and wafting down the hour, post-rain shower Stillness seeping upwards steam From molten sewer summer in New York
They've been us chemicals in our sleep Us, Something the mosquitoes some kind of disease Them, me
CIA foul if you ask the guy Selling hair out of a gym bag Chemical
"I'm you, lab rat to lab rat", he says "That's the truth is at" That's where the is at where the truth is at
And everything seems to gone terribly wrong that can But one breath at a is an acceptable plan She herself and the air is still there And this morning even breathable
And for a second the relief is And she's a heavy sack of flour her burden lifted She's full of wind for one lean moment And then she's again
Reverted, and contorted no way to get free And she's getting plenty of kisses But nobody's her the key
Her whole is a long list of what ifs And she doesn't know where to begin And the pageantry of suffering television
TV is, after all, the modern day roman Human devastation as entertainment And now millions sit jeering cheering The bloodthirsty of the patriarchal arrangement
She is a cab She is down the avenue She's 19 on 30
Or maybe she's 30 now It's to say It's to keep up with time once it's on its way
And, you know, she never had much of a into a family built like an avalanche And somewhere in the between the Oat Bran and the Ozone She started to figure out like why
One eye pointed upwards for the holes in the sky One eye on the little flashing red A Picasso face twisted and listing the canvas Of the end of an endless
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 And Kerplooey done done for, you're done for good So tell me did Did you do, did you do all you