Living breathing human beings   Inhabit my periphery   In glorious passivity   I am surrounded   All of them have names and faces   Loving friends and close relations   Secrets kept in sordid places    Don't you tell a soul      Living breathing human beings   Are sucking all my energy   With coughing fits a eulogy   Will be in order   With blame alive like crooked teeth   The gaps aflame with subtlety   And everyone including me   Is moving backwards      A simple, sterile, solitary kitchen sink   With faith will bring together everything   Could I sleep for just one night here on your floor?   I wouldn't ask for more      Living breathing human beings   Are walking, running, hurrying   On paper routes and studying   We're so much smarter   Adding to our knowledge bases   Learning facts to get us places   Building our own brand new nation   Let my people go      Living breathing human beings   Are passed out in pools of anything   Drowned in words and cycling   Through cartoon movies   I remember everything   That anybody says to me   So I burn CDs to give for free      A simple, sterile, solitary kitchen sink   With faith will bring together everything   Could I sleep for just one night here on your floor?   I wouldn't ask for more