Five

Sure, I know that you are tired of hearing about it

But most repeat the same theme over and over again,

It's as if they were trying to refine what seems so strange

And off and important to them.

It's done by everybody

Because each must work out what is before them over and over again

Because that is their personal tiny miracle.

Like now as like before

And before I have been listening to symphony after symphony from this radio

It makes me realize that certain people now long dead

Were able to transgress graveyards and traps and cages and bones and limbs

In tiny rented rooms I was struck by miracles

The flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there

And sometimes a soul and the women break vases against the walls

And the men they drink too much

And nobody ever finds the one

But keep looking crawling in and out of beds.

Flesh covers the bone and the flesh searches for more than flesh.

There is a loneliness in this world

So great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock

People so tired, mutilated, either by love or no love.

People just are not good to each other.

We are afraid.

Our educational system tells us that we can all be big winners

But it hasn't told us about the gutters or the suicides.

Or the terror of one person aching in one place

Alone, untouched, and unspoken to.

People are not good to each other.

People are not good to each other.

I suppose they never will be.

I don't ask them to be.

But sometimes I think about it.

There must be a way.

Surely, there must be a way

There's no chance at all:

We are all trapped by fate.

Nobody ever finds the one.

Nobody ever finds the one.

There's no chance at all:

We are all trapped by fate.

Who put this brain inside of me?

It says that there's a chance.

It's kept the rope from my throat

Maybe it will loosen yours.

The city dumps fill.

The junkyards fill.

The graveyards fill.

Nothing else fills.

Nothing else fills.

Nothing else fills.