We Bought The Flood

I was born with a teacup on my head

Copper tin and lead ash and dust

Sky color Indiana Red

Like Kansas Oklahoma plus a thousand years of rust

Examine it carefully before it's set ablaze

Take it all in before it's gone gone gone

Let's notice everything I mean every grain of salt

Let's be thorough to a fault and next time

We'll build it twice as strong

And all of this will disappear as quickly as it came

The fire and the rain oxidize and rearrange

Focus on the pain

Focus on the way to get out

Virginia 1902

There was nothing we could do cracked bell fell off a train

Slow walking down Cedar Avenue

I came to find you I came to feel urbane

No more speed no more direction

No more push and pull and no more lessons

Save it for the afterlife don't want to hear your confessions

It's the hammer walking then it's the hammer down

And all of this will disappear as quickly as it came

The fire and the rain oxidize and rearrange

Focus on the pain

Focus on the way to get out