Short Cut Lyrics

I notice trees along the highway and beyond

Tempted as I drive to ponder each design

To enunciate its weight in life's green scheme

But each lone specimen evades me as I speed

Toward unknown peripheries

Of darker and darker

Groves and forests and jungles

Implicating blackness in the blur of green until

Impatiently

I change the station

And watch the road

It's just a short cut

It ain't nothing but

A short cut

It ain't nothing but

A short cut

It's just a short cut

It ain't nothing but

A short cut

It ain't nothing but

A short cut

In the tangled humps of exposed roots I walk among

In preference to the flat meander of concrete sidewalks

No subtle clues of something to do with souls impress me now

No metaphoric mazes come to mind to puzzle me

With riddles of the meaning of roots

With the force of things unknown and new

I walk among the tangled roots

Only because the way is straight and short

It's just a short cut

It ain't nothing but

A short cut

It ain't nothing but

A short cut

It's just a short cut

It ain't nothing but

A short cut

It ain't nothing but

A short cut

Implicating blackness in the blur of green until

Impatiently

I change the station

And watch the road

And walk among the tangled roots

Only because the way is straight and short

It's just a short cut

It ain't nothing but

A short cut

It ain't nothing but

A short cut

It's just a short cut

It ain't nothing but

A short cut

It ain't nothing but

A short cut