…And the band played on   Score the sequence, a piece for my élan   Spread through the procession with a phaeton hitched up to   Thoroughly bred equine, bet he try and cover the spread   Vignette, butter and bread truck – must’ve been something I said   Cinnamon sugar on my raison d’être   We shake on credit and contract words   Negotiate the merger to further the fake arm gesture   Dribble the ribald off a baseline   Nine up in the seat cogitating; I preach, for God’s sake   Flung a bitter syllable off a sweet tongue, gold dome terrorized   Revoke and nullify, my lodestone pulverized   Sull I rep and don’t apologize to   People for indecency the frequency is equalized   Father missed – got this doctorate in absolution   Caught another body; shot and stabbed, headed back to Houston   Tack escape routes to board bulletins pullin’ the stake out   Flash say it’s four of them slaughtered inside the safe house   Kowtow, power reneged, trigger the Sig Sauer decibel   Let a few settle and fled the vestibule   Inestimable gems swapped for peridot   Pawn it off as hard-rock, shoppers go hysterical   Veritable trade smith, cake sift, coordinate the bracelet with a facelift   Slip away, they spit on your grave         From the makers of placebo, a trio pushed   To ameliorate the feverish, deceivinest looks   For thieves and crooks booked up in the state’s prison system   It’s marketed disregarding the rate of recidivism   I sent a petition: rescind the vendor   Minister free of influence, please – the pen needs instruments   Incriminated, incarcerated, incrementally rehabilitated on frets   Now that’s a bass head   Something I can feel, not nothing I should fear   For the impropriety I bring to bear   Where the numbers at compared to then? Summer breeze, fair wind   Jasmine aint blowin’ their minds, they’re smokin’ heroin   No we don’t select the listenership or bend to it   The insurrection intimate and interests the syndicate   Offense of friends, incidental to my requisition   In the end, I respect your decision.