A and porcelain lonely in an old New York hotel A stranger to a city she used to know so well Bathing in a that is bathed in the first blue light Of the of a century at the end of an endless night
Then she is wet behind the ears and down the avenue Pre-rush hour, shower seeping upwards like steam From another sewer summer in New York
been spraying us With chemicals in our Us, Something the mosquitoes 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 the truth is at That's the truth is at
And seems to have gone terribly wrong that can But one breath at a time is an acceptable She herself and the air is still there And morning it's even breathable
And for a second the is unbelievable And she's a heavy sack of flour her burden lifted She's full of clean for one lean moment And then trapped again
Reverted, and contorted no way to get free And getting plenty of little 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 of suffering therein television
TV is, after all, the modern day roman Human devastation as entertainment And now millions sit jeering cheering The bloodthirsty hierarchy of the patriarchal
She is a cab She is sailing down the She's 19 on 30
Or she's 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 80's between the Oat Bran and the She to figure out things like why
One eye pointed upwards for the holes in the sky One eye on the flashing red light A Picasso face twisted and listing the canvas Of the end of an night
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 And Kerplooey done You're done for, you're for good So tell me did Did you do, did you do all you