His black market bride
whom he called, Complicity
was known to stir her cocktails with a fork
He never missed the chance to be
seen standing next to her
His pride was of the ordinary sort
They were driven from the road one day
by a tired sober driver
who'd risen early and was on her way to church
Complicity was thrown
right through the windshield
and she bled out by the roadside in the dirt

Was that a fiery phoenix or a salmon-colored herring?
We passed the bodies on our way back home.
The truth it is obscured by all the flapping and the flailing.
We will know more once the buzzards leave the bones
We will know more once the buzzards leave the bones

He named his daughter, Freedom
and then sold her to the parasites
Had my druthers I would
haul him under keel
People praise the Emperor's duds
but I can clearly see his willy
some sits & thinks while others
only sits and feel
Freedom went by Edie
ground her teeth when she was sleeping
had her tubes cut when she was only twenty-three
She never really lived and all she ever had was stolen and
She hung her self by pantyhose and tree

Was that a fiery phoenix or a salmon-colored herring?
We passed the bodies on our way back home.
The truth it is obscured by all the flapping and the flailing.
We will know more once the buzzards leave the bones
We will know more once the buzzards leave the bones

I got no dog in this race
I got no horse in this fight
I danced right passed this disgrace
Put it to bed, there, nighty night
I know my place; I got no place
You're standing there on skinny ice
That egg ain't on my face
So you may please keep your advice

History forgets so much more than it remembers
Learn ignore forget tune in and then repeat
The ticks and leeches swell while
turning phrase for each new massacre
Ignore forget tune in and then repeat
They're mighty mighty bloated
but they tell us that we need 'em
Learn ignore forget tune in and then repeat
They swell before our eyes
and yet they tell us that we need 'em
Ignore forget tune in and then repeat
How big they gonna get? I can't
believe they haven't popped yet
Ignore forget tune in and then repeat
Ignore forget tune in and then repeat
Learn ignore forget tune in and then repeat

Was that a fiery phoenix or a salmon-colored herring?
We passed the bodies on our way back home.
The truth it is obscured by all the flapping and the flailing.
We will know more once the buzzards leave the bones
We will know more once the buzzards leave the bones

My thoughts drift to Freedom
and then to Complicity
their lives they flitter by within a stanza
delusions of safety, service,
protection & prevention and
their lives they flitter by within a stanza
sold with bluster each and every
merchant with a purchase and
their lives they flitter by within a stanza
they named their daughters Hope & Love and
Skye and Raine and Joy and all
their lives they flitter by within a stanza
all their lives they flitter by within a stanza
all their lives they flitter by within a stanza