Oh, oh, oh brother totem pole   I saw your legends lined up   And I never felt more natural   Apart, I just came apart      Please, please, please sister Socrates   You always answer with a question   Show some kindness to a petty thief   Forgive, you did forgive      And watch the migrants smoke in the old orange grove   And the red rocket blaze over Cape Canaveral   You’ve been a father to me   In 1960’s speak   Give me comatose joy like re-run TV   While the mountain’s side was shining   Wild colors of my destiny      I watched your face age backwards   Changing shape in my memory   You told me victory’s sweet   Even deep in the cheap seats      Hey, hey, hey mother interstate   Can you deliver me from evil   Make me honest make me wedding cake   Atone, I will atone      Wait, wait, wait mighty outer-space   All that flying saucer terror   Made me lazy drinking lemonade   A waste, it just went to waste      Like the freon cold out the hotel door   Or the white rocket fade over Cape Canaveral   You’ve been a daughter to me   Your buried shoe-box grief   I felt your poltergeist love like savannah heat   While the waterfall was pouring   Crazy symbols of my destiny      I watched your face die backwards   Little baby in my memory   You told me victory’s sweet   Even deep in the cheap seats      And you don’t judge me   That’s not your style   But I won’t see you   For a little while   And there’s no worries, oh no   Whose got time   All these changes are going to   Fill your mind      Like the citrus glow off the old orange grove   Or the red rocket blaze over Cape Canaveral   It’s been a nightmare for me   Some 1980’s grief   Gives me parachute dreams   Like old war movies   While the universe was drawing   Perfect circles for infinity      I watched the stars get smaller   Tiny diamonds in my memory   I know that victory is sweet   Even deep in the cheap seats