It wasn't the soft light
or the shadow
it wasn't the horse or the saddle
when i looked
and said" whats the matter?"
she couldn't hold back the shatter

When i went to meet the maker
he was looking down at earth
with a fork and salt shaker
he was laughing with the taker
and i wasn't afraid at all

then i understood

but still
i wasn't filled
and still i asked questions
i asked
"why do you figure?"
"why do you reckon?"
"do you come when we beckon?"

then i understood

he was so not amused
at my humor and my views
he was surely not used
to my questions. He refused.
I stood true
"but you listen to the pews
and I assume you read all the news
aside from the bad movie reviews.... we pick and chose
oh, how we pick and chose
how can you let this get away
so out of hand
you sit, and drink
and play cards all day
and do not what we demand?
Don't you know the plan?"

"well", he replied
without a tear welled in his eye
"why would i make you if i didn't want to take you?
Why would I wait if there wasn't a meal? I mean, c'mon, what's the deal?
Did you think you were fake? Do you think you are real?
You are just a sliver of rice for the table.
And we are only meeting for you to be able.
To sing me a song, or tell me a fable... so please... don't rock my cradle
I'm just hungry, where's the ladle?"

Things got strange
and things get weird in the presence of the devil
or a level headed friend
and shit don't work
like it supposed to was
i know i knew that it was all because
the sled broke
and the toboggan lost it's tracks
i retract
I regret to inform you
that your children are lost
out to the river fishing under sunlight kiss
oh boy boy oh boy they will be missed
oh boy oh joy
come hear this list
to tell the neighbors
that the world is safe
to tell the highschool principal that it is safe
and you can sleep and wake
without worry

go, hurry
go, go
be who you are and what you know
be what you are and how you do it
be the one
the only one
to see through it

blood on fire
we tap the wire
we break the code
and quietly, no one knows
where the voices go
or if they continue
or if they even write down their thoughts or not
their thoughts or not
i thought not
i don't think so