Bring me birds with broken wings
Men with all the answers
People who have killed
Give me incurable cancers
Bring me beaches slicked in oil
Give me disregard for doubt
Streetlights shine on broken roads where no one is about
I want that hopeless green depression
Punishments without a cause
Give me impotent obsession
A disregard for laws
I want the treason single file
Bring the corpse of something rare
Show me children who are sinners
Show me mounds of human hair
I climbed up the mountain just to kill my son
An angel tried to stop me with a ram
Well, he said "Your mind's infected"
But I said "You lack perspective -
You've gotta walk the bottom if you wanna see the top"
Give me poison I can swim in
Water I can't drink
Wheels that won't stop spinnin'
Teach my children not to think
I want the fruit that tastes like nothin'
(Extra thumbs for every crook)
Give me lessons without questions
A mild disdain for books
Give me metaphors unraveled, poetry defined
Bring me the head of Dionysus
But please don't spill out the wine
Trade the future for the present
Trade me ashes for my history
I don't need to look inside
I know the answer to the mystery
I climbed up the mountain just to kill my son
An angel tried to stop me with a ram
Well, he said "Your mind's infected"
But I said "You lack perspective -
You've gotta walk the bottom if you wanna see the top"
Oh, I know they call me crazy
There will be no turning back
I don't care if things get ugly
Once the word of God has spoken there's no way to take it back
I climbed up the mountain just to kill my son
An angel tried to stop me with a ram
Well, he said "Your mind's infected"
But I said "You lack perspective -
You've gotta walk the bottom if you wanna see the top"