Permanent High C

What I been doing

steeped in sweet sweet.

What I been doing

steeped in sweet sweet whine,

steeped in sweet sweet drone.

What I been doing

steeped in black black.

What I been doing

steeped in black black clouds,

steeped in black black tones.

The constant sound

The constant sound

The constant sound.

What I been doing

soaked with powerful.

What I been doing

soaked with powerful wine,

soaked with powerful ohms.

The constant sound

The constant sound

The constant sound.

What I been doing

bleached all in white.

What I been doing

bleached all in white whine,

bleached all in white bones.

Message For "The Bug"

Christ,

here they come again.

The nightly medicine show.

Broadcast towers of the ferris wheel

spinning fortune in front of murdering eyes.

Every whispered message never heard but known

is the word "Rise" painted on a wall in Krenwinkel scrawl.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch,

it's been a long, long, long time.

Alex and Dennis tore up the highway,

stoned in the desert foothills in search of fast pussy.

It was them, your Honor.

It was them all of you, yes you.

The world of television

is just the mirror image of your lies.

The prisons are benedictine monasteries

keeping safe your truth.

Out there in the lock up

is your salvation.

Piss stained glass windows in the barred clerestory

shaft the light in blades on the sacraments;

desire's excrement bleeding self interest.

Godly greed in fear's name

virtue and lust.

Mickie Most

I came down with a case of the blues

and passed out millennial illness

to the millions.

Some guy on a bubble

points to a chart and calls it golden.

Lead us to the incision and let us in.

What?

You'd tell me I'm in the wrong

when I tell you the truth.

You wouldn't believe me

even when I lie.

They bottled up my vision.

It's in your prescription.

In the slaughterhouse

they shit in the mouth of the cattle

and call it meat.

Ha ha, said the clown.

Is it bringing you down?

Is the night being tight on romance??

Let me take you to the movies for the blind

projected in braille across a belt sander.

They'll rub your face in it

and you'll come back for more

until someone sweeps up

the broken teeth and hair.