How To Get Bigger

Streets are wrapped

Childlike faces smooth and blank

Firm young flesh

Hung with paper crowns

Pull me up from where we are

The big keep getting bigger,

And their hearts keep getting harder

And imaginary game

Eating at every living thing

A wide mouth dripping with sarcasm

A bloody fat slash grinning over

Bleached white-fang teeth

That glow like green warning signs of sickness

Taking for your kind

And running with your winnings

They're just running with your winnings

Staring ahead and hearing

Voices saying useless things

About how to be better

About how to get bigger

It's your knight on white horse

Turn it all around

The world is just for you

But if you don't want to take it

Ah - you must be useless!

And you must be lazy

Have enough then

With insipid grins

That swallow hard and

Bear. Big. Burden.

This place is getting tighter

And all around the angels scream

And close the gate of heaven

A division of the ages

Try to swallow wings of traitors

Robbed of being really human

And the voices drip with sarcasm like

Bloody fat slash grinning over

White-fanged teeth that glow like green

Warning signs of sickness

And running with their winnings

They're just running with their winnings

Big are getting bigger and

Hearts are getting harder

An imaginary game

Eating at every living thing

A voice dripping with sarcasm like

A bloody fat slash grinning over

Bleached white-fang teeth

That glow like green warnings

Warning signs of sickness

But little things add up

A barbed-wire fence of stiffened spines

Broadcasts violent death through flashing blinds

Look at their faces

Keep it all inside

If not, we'll all go down together

A coward's crawling death

The paper king's big dinner

Look at their faces

And down into their eyes

And the vacant, glaring certainty

Of nothing, ever, anywhere.