All the ghost of the grandmothers Have been haunting me in my living room And I am Pagan in my pondering Wondering where it is I will go, if I don't go here And the streets are full of beggars bragging threats of misdemeanors And I am shirtless in my offering to be more than what you want from me Say it ain't so, all the creatures in their masks and capes Are growing restless under costume makeup and I am wise to what were doing here but I'm a fool standing naked and dressed as myself I will keep my eyes shut, I will build a time machine, traveling back to kings and queens Changing all the course of history so these things I've done cant make a fool out of me Well the children at the swimming pool offer there bare skin to the afternoon And in the quart yard birds are caroling in the fountains that man made for them Say it ain't so I am cursed and insignificant thinking all the world revolves around me