Commencement At the Obedience Academy

I fell asleep again, I wasn't ready for it

The harvest appeared less plentiful than last season

I imagine sloppy seed handling evoked a stroke of tardy planting

And the crops we'd have harnessed mid-November

Had only brushed the blossom bracket then soon sacrificed

Lives to icicle jackets when the frost hit

I sunk to find the warmth beneath the mosses

With a plan to tunnel pass after the rains had run their courses

But alas the portraits of these frostbit corpses tortured in the grass

Offered this torch supporter one tall glass and nauseous

And I'm asking you: Why's the spy supply hiding in strangers

When they know atop these food chains I could spot biters for acres?

Now be gracious, these minstrels turn the bully cycle civil

By dissolving the candy coated image down to the pixels

The upbringing of self-styled freedom brigade investors

In their studies connecting one hit wonders with dust collectors

Puts it down

It's down beneath your sappy sing-a-longs

So lets take it further down

We'll let Dante decide which ring I'm on

Nova

The elders took positions the fans marched

Parched, plain and steamed hawking the rain in my canteen

Now I'm like point:

I guess I could spare a splash for a couple of heads

Counterpoint: During my famine I never got broke your bread

Well, equation of intrigue, yes, yes

Lemme fence-sit for a bit

These tense lips need soaking before I hand out tokens

Shut the fuck up

Drama like kabuki with a heart of dirt

Skull fucked cross bones hence my birth

It hurts

Must not sleep, must warn others

Trust blocks creep where the dust storm hovers

I milk my habitat for almost everything I want

Sometimes I take it all and still can't fill this pitfall in my gut

And I'm like must not sleep, must warn others

Trust blocks creep where the dust storm hovers

I'm trying to walk on top of sunshine

But it's ridiculous at times that's why I'm touring with this warning

Wanting the glory of our advance

Fire ants to water beetles

Free masons adjacent debasing on pins and needles

Pupil turned pedagogue, benediction to my dream

Beaming a billion bottle rockets off the golden mezzanine

Check it

I pluck the petals off a classic blood rose one at a time

Gripping the stem in right, invite the thorns to dig up in my lifeline

It's a metaphor for night-time

Ante up the slight cost of exhaustion

To salute the moon above Paradise Lost

And you're a spectator scrinching

Inch by sacred inch shoveling coal in my earthworm soul

Burrow up through the dirt with bloody digit

Lick my knuckles clean

Noting the corporate clusters holding hands round the abode of the damned

Now what's your poison?

Starlight and amaze her with a nicotine chaser

Sip it clean savor the taste then sit and dream later

The islands pivot back upon their hinges

20 miles across the glassy-eyed windows of wonders to passers-by

Now I'm six-foot-four with a sixth-floor walk-up just to recline

With no free time, the alarm storms at nine

My daytime's on some, "Yes sir. Okay sir. Right away, sir

Sir, do you mind if I breathe, sir?

Oh, you do? Well excuse me, sir, fuck you"

I breathe slow, I'm running with these fantastic amalgams

Painting casket bound careers to pierce gunning with plastic albums

Security's the javelin, catch it

Labor

Clocked in at '76 and haven't clocked out ever since

Must not sleep must warn others

Trust blocks creep where the dust storm hovers

I milk my habitat for almost everything I want

Sometimes I take it all and still can't feel this pitfall in my gut

And it's like must not sleep must warn others

Trust blocks creep where the dust storm hovers

I'm trying to walk on top of sunshine

But it's ridiculous at times that's why I tore 'em with this warning

Feel it it's like

Must not sleep, must warn others

Trust blocks creep where the dust storm hovers

I melt my habitat for almost everything I want

Sometimes I take it all and still can't feel this pitfall in my gut

And it's like

Must not sleep, must warn others

Trust blocks creep where the dust storm hovers

I'm trying to walk on top of sunshine but it's ridiculous at times

That's why I'm touring with this warning

Feel it, it's like that