Wholesale notoriety   Bar code your anxiety   State your fatal doom in a still photograph      Fear is a ragged dog all right   But you let it run around awhile   Oh, it howls and begs, but it won't bite   Oh, it loses heart in its dinner      You were captive to the free press   He's a work in regress   You'll fix him in the repress or let him be      I thank you for your largess   I hope you'll drop the charges   You know I crave the mark of your company      He was holed up in the brickyard   He could only take this so hard   He was driven on a mission   He did it in the pole position      I was always interested   Even if it was in whispers   But I knew he had me bested   Saw you at the metro pictures      Rip the moonlit sky down and tear sun   Shoot the fucking stars out, here we come   With the gray clouds conspiring, the rain fall between us   If you're on the line by the bayside marina      Later outside when I told you one true wish   And I hid my smile 'cause you sounded so foolish   Cut down to size as life flashed in his eyes   And looked a lot like TV news   He was castigated for his lies   He was persecuted for his views      And we all disintegrated into one celestial fissure   Leaving all that went unstated   Taking all the metro pictures   I will always be your lover   You will always be my sister   But I knew I need not bother   I saw you at the metro pictures