A Topiary (Mom & Dad) (demo) Lyrics

I can hear them at the service whispering

"Who could have known his sanity was Gerry rigged?"

His body stationary but his head in transit

Beyond a topiary was an open casket

He used to say the universe was born in violence

Stars come together like paint on canvas

Immersed in the afternoon Rembrandt light

A tiny triangle forming under his eye

I didn't have the energy to pick apart the effigy

"You can't go trusting history any more than prophecy"

"He could be a satan, with a dash of saint Francis"

"Death can hide your faults to make your life gigantic"

I miss my mother and I miss my father

Will we be strangers in time together

They read the lives of saints to me

On those terrifying nights for me

I miss my mother and I miss my father

Will we be strangers in time together

They lived the lives of saints to me

Ever since I was a child you see

Look up at the tv and see ducks washed with hand soap

Jim is up on stage and he is talking about utopia

A press conference at Kmart went down in Astor place

In the transparent sunlight through the alabaster gates

A given number of people shifting in a given space

submerged by new faces, often worn out and replaced

By the bones of the dead which the wind rolls away

Death can become fertile soil for those old cliches

I miss my mother and I miss my father

Will we be strangers in time together

They read the lives of saints to me

On those terrifying nights for me

I miss my mother and I miss my father

Will we be strangers in time together

They lived the lives of saints to me

Ever since I was a child you see

When The city says everything you already think

Then the city can begin to exist

The twelve houses of the zodiac taught me the same

Its only a game but its the only game

I miss my mother and I miss my father

Will we be strangers in time together

They read the lives of saints to me

On those terrifying nights for me

I miss my mother and I miss my father

Will we be strangers in time together

They lived the lives of saints to me

Ever since I was a child you see