dance it as if you mean it
(listening to the new Slaid Cleaves cd Wishbones)
some unknown country full of water
some hard to hear lingo
some shaky evidence of humanity
coming soon to your front door
dance it as if you mean it
they'll be asking for you at intermission
when all will be revealed,
the invasion is getting a bit painful and gray
the monkeys are going over the exit strategy
a broken hemisphere just showed up for tea
i'd like to oblige everyone, but i forgot my number
could someone afford anything a la carte
some anointed asylum where the inmates
roll naked with God on an hourly basis
they never told me which God though
as the restless wages fell through the
holes in my pocket.
dance it as if you believe it
believe it as if you could dance to it.
---Scott Wannberg
There was. . .
A two headed critter named George Dick who
gave secret lingo behind super locked doors,
the would be singer with two tongues, yeah,and
let it be written in the holy book of bewilderment
that when George Dick said Stay The Course,
no one could find what Course that was so it
could get a Stay, so the Governor cried Execute
that Course, No Stay intended...yeah, and let
it be levied that the intelligence gatherers are
blind and dumb for they must have let the air out
of the cushion, not us, not Dick George, who gave
secret rap behind super locked doors of love,
kill the messengers because the message
didn't have a good backbeat for our band,yeah,
and let hipsters Wolfowitz and Perl come and
shimmy in the Business as Usual spotlights,
quick quick, Dick, lemme see some of that
Halle Berry money oh yeah brother oh yeah yeah
come and suck at the marrow of the consciousness
of time and space...
---Scott Wannberg
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