The dripping flies thought of you smiling
And all the while my chest was pounding
Eating the books and the words of old men
Gleaning thoughts from trapped people below
And running across their faces
And disgracing their kin and kind
The sky's dripping from my hands
And when the birds, upon me, land
I smite in the eye's blinded land
And all the wanderers following, the followers wandering
Behind followers wondering "why"?
I smite in the eye of the thought's vacant sky
And I'm blinded in my own lonely land
Gasping for air
Grasping gray hair
That fell out long ago, beneath the one you loved most
Clogging mind drains and choking what flows
The dripping flies watched all you cryin'
Men are gone the willows are whisperin'
Brass women pass by
To watch the dogs lie
And all the men once thought of as honest
The sky's dripping from my hands
And when the birds, upon me, land
I smite in the eye's blinded land
And all the wanderers following, the followers wandering
Behind followers wondering "why"?
I smite in the eye of the thought's vacant sky
And I'm blinded in my own lonely land
And all the while my chest was pounding
Eating the books and the words of old men
Gleaning thoughts from trapped people below
And running across their faces
And disgracing their kin and kind
The sky's dripping from my hands
And when the birds, upon me, land
I smite in the eye's blinded land
And all the wanderers following, the followers wandering
Behind followers wondering "why"?
I smite in the eye of the thought's vacant sky
And I'm blinded in my own lonely land
Gasping for air
Grasping gray hair
That fell out long ago, beneath the one you loved most
Clogging mind drains and choking what flows
The dripping flies watched all you cryin'
Men are gone the willows are whisperin'
Brass women pass by
To watch the dogs lie
And all the men once thought of as honest
The sky's dripping from my hands
And when the birds, upon me, land
I smite in the eye's blinded land
And all the wanderers following, the followers wandering
Behind followers wondering "why"?
I smite in the eye of the thought's vacant sky
And I'm blinded in my own lonely land