A cold and porcelain lonely in an old New York A stranger to a city she used 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
she is wet behind the ears and wafting down the avenue Pre-rush hour, post-rain Stillness upwards like steam From another molten sewer summer in New
been spraying us With chemicals in our Us, Something about the some kind of disease Them, me
CIA play if you ask the guy Selling dryers out of a gym bag warfare
"I'm telling you, lab rat to lab rat", he "That's where the is at" That's where the is at That's where the is at
And everything to have gone terribly wrong that can But one breath at a time is an acceptable She tells herself and the air is there And morning it's even breathable
And for a the relief is unbelievable And she's a heavy sack of flour sifted her burden She's full of clean wind for one moment And then she's again
Reverted, caged and With no way to get And she's getting plenty of kisses But nobody's her the key
Her whole life is a list of what ifs And she doesn't even where to begin And the of suffering therein television
TV is, after all, the modern day roman Human devastation as mass And now millions sit jeering collectively The bloodthirsty hierarchy of the patriarchal
She is a cab She is sailing the avenue 19 going on 30
Or maybe really 30 now hard to say It's hard to keep up time once it's on its way
And, you know, she never had of a chance Born into a built like an avalanche And in the 80's between the Oat Bran and the Ozone She started to figure out things why
One eye pointed looking for the holes in the sky One eye on the little red light A Picasso face twisted and down the canvas Of the end of an night
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 And Kerplooey you're You're done for, you're done for So me did you? Did you do, did you do all you