Starfish (or The Geology of Morals) Lyrics

Well this is a cordial gathering

Thanks for asking

No in fact I'm not employed

I appreciate the inquiry

Actually these free snacks are the reason I came

No I've never heard of you or your associate

Actually, I don't agree with your quips

But I can't quit. So let's laugh let's laugh let's laugh

No I don't know how I feel

I might feel like a rainforest crawling with indescribable fauna

Or like a bag of dust, tossed into the back of a truck

I could feel mathematical about skin

Fanatical about the frames I'm put into you

Can't imagine how indistinct I am

How borderless how porous I am

How sensitive and instinctive

How many contingencies I incorporate into my methodology

My daughter reprograms me with incessant memories and impossible game plans

Young brain

She says

Young brain, points at her head

Mine is ripening to the turning point ahead

I am a starfish

I am a starfish tilting

I am a starfish

I am a starfish building a new hand

Cut down then regenerate

I am a sickly engine with no intention but to turn on

Burn on Then gone

I spent Wednesday looking for the gnostic gospel I misplaced

Here it is:

I heard that the ceilings of cathedrals are built to look like Noah's Arc

But the ceiling of this church looks like ice

God made the extension cords taped to the carpet

God made the speakers bolted to the window sills

The tools required to gather are as varied as the gathered but

Every comfort added has a price and an unforeseen sacrifice

The piano teacher has you practice cadences on the pulpit

You gather the tones into a single swarm

A child prophet sculpting seven pitches into form

The only correct music is beautiful and noble

In the geology of morals

Flawed philosophies rise to the surface

It is the goodness expelling the sickness

I am a starfish

I am a starfish tilting

I am a starfish

I am a starfish building a new hand

Tell me where I end and you begin

Is it at the bone

The blood

The muscle

The skin

The hair

The air

The dark matter

The gravity

The probability wave

The language

The symbols

The other universes

Flying apart at, imaginary speeds