A cold and lonely in an old New York hotel A stranger to a city that she to know so well in a bathroom that is bathed in the first blue light Of the beginning of a century at the end of an night
Then she is wet behind the ears and wafting the avenue Pre-rush hour, post-rain Stillness upwards like steam From molten sewer summer in New York
been spraying us With chemicals in our Us, Something the mosquitoes Having some kind of Them, me
CIA play if you ask the guy Selling dryers out of a gym bag Chemical
"I'm you, lab rat to lab rat", he says "That's where the is at" where the truth is at That's the truth is at
And everything seems to have gone terribly that can But one breath at a time is an acceptable She tells and the air is still there And this morning it's breathable
And for a the relief is unbelievable And she's a heavy sack of flour sifted her lifted She's of clean wind for one lean moment And then she's again
Reverted, caged and no way to get free And she's getting plenty of little But nobody's her the key
Her life is a long list of what ifs And she doesn't even know to begin And the of suffering therein Rivals
TV is, after all, the modern day coliseum Human as mass entertainment And now sit jeering collectively cheering The bloodthirsty hierarchy of the arrangement
She is a cab She is sailing the avenue She's 19 on 30
Or maybe really 30 now hard to say It's hard to keep up with once it's on its way
And, you know, she had much of a chance Born a family built like an avalanche And somewhere in the between the Oat Bran and the Ozone She started to out things like why
One eye pointed upwards for the holes in the sky One eye on the little flashing red A Picasso face twisted and down the canvas Of the end of an endless
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 And you're done You're done for, you're for good So tell me did Did you do, did you do all you