Universal Separation Lyrics

Universal Separation lyrics

a century of universal decay



in cyclotrons nuclei are split



souls are split, sounds are split insanely



while behind a quiet fence on a bench in someone's garden



doom weighs a century of separation



and her eyes are ancient and her palms are taut with nerves



it comes oozing



out of flowers at night



it comes out of the rain



if a snake looks skyward



it comes out of chairs and tables



if you don't point at them and say their names



it comes into your mouth while you sleep



pressing like a washcloth



beware, beware



nearby and cynical, death brandishes a hasty spade



here whispers are worse than curses, offer no consolation



how long the bureaucrats babbled on like crows about universal good...







if you meet a cross eyed person



you must plunge into the grass, alongside the chilly ants



fish through the green fingernails and come up with the four leaf clover



or your blood with congeal like cold gravy



if you run across a horseshoe, passerby, stop, take your hands out of your



pockets



and count the nails as you count your children or your money



otherwise a sand flea will crawl in your ear and fly into your brain



and the only wall you'll keep from going mad, is to be hit with a hammer



every hour



if a hunchback is in the elevator with you



don't turn away... don't turn away



immediately touch his hump



for a child will be born from his back tomorrow



and if he promptly bites the baby's nails off



so it won't become a thief that child will be holy



and you, simple bird that you are, may go on flying



whan you knock on wood



and you go



you knock on the cross