Black eyes, you see   I’m teething, like a newborn   Follow a trail of bread crumbs   Bear witness for me   Sister’s improvement   My brother left tied to the mast of a ship   Senator, you’ll tell us   We’re dying everywhere if you look hard enough for it   In the belly of a whale, a coffin or jail   Look what they had us believing   Look what they had us believing      Black eyes, you see   I must say, it’s tempting   You talk to me as if I were   Sleeping in your lap, or in your womb   A belly full of warm milk and sedative    A diamond ring in a bear trap   Waiting for someone else just to reach for it   In the belly of a whale, a coffin or jail   Look what they had us believing   Look what they had us believing      Black eyes, I beg you   Don’t walk on eggshells   The ballots are all still full of holes   You make such a grand example of    A belly full of life, when I’m barely full of life   A belly full of life, when I’m barely full of life      When I’m barely full of life