First Word Lyrics

First Word

In the beginning there was the word. 
And the word was sent through  
a thousand different telephone lines 
and became garbled and distorted. 
 
And so began the long process of sorting out 
the wheat from the chaff 
the milk from the whey 
the truth from the lies 
the night from the day. 
 
Xylem and Phloem. 
Flotsam and Jetsam. 
David and Goliath. 
Donner and Blitzen