Smash the town clock our schedules are more precise than the second Forsake the sidewalk for a highway more direct than already Calculated a stride of becoming but math did not get it With movements so strict and efficient that poetry was jealous At last we had the last laugh on city hall high five! our play is effective What time is it Lord, what time is it Lord? Youve made everything beautiful in its time, but what does it mean to be alive And what is this place in which I find that I am the wicked I seek for a sign? Now where the wind blows I go, dont know where that is, you can hear the sound of it but it escapes all your predict I was running and I dont know why I looked into the sky the moon was up in the daytime, the sun was rising, inbetween was a tree beside me. Look at it Its fall out, it smells good, theres a cold breeze burr Burn a twenty there is plenty more where that came from, well not money but something A car passed by and I said hi [they ask] you need a ride [I respond] why not. [they ask] where are you doing [I respond] absolutely. [someone asks] anywhere? [later on in the day I say to them] let me out of the car now [then to anyone] come on, that blinking yellow light would make a good dance floor, Im serious Its time to get serious. What time is it Lord, what time is it Lord? I asked around we had nothing to say Now Im on my face Lord teach me to pray Heaven and earth they will pass away But your words shall not pass away I was walking on the tracks in Jackson. I saw a deer, I walked over to it And It looked at me in the eye and said Do you see this world around you, do you see the trees, do you see the flora and fauna Do you see how we swing and we sway and we moan with the morning winds and the evening tide, do you see the sun setting in the West? I looked around and I noticed it for the first time in months And I said ya, ya I understand I see that And the deer said look closer do you really understand do you really see whats going on? And I looked again and I saw the rising of cities and I saw the destruction of lands that I had never seen before And it came to me in a vision that this all at once terrible and frightening And I said how did all this happen how did I never see it before? And the deer just looked at me And I said I dont understand. The deer looked at me again and said you dont understand. The deer walked away into the forest I could not follow Chorus Tossed about in a sea of words Reading and talking fenced in with the herd Harvest time, harvesting Revised revisiting The same scar on my mind All that is weak, all thats despised After months of sleeping in the city I took the night train to Jackson I got off in the terminal and I walked in front and I saw the deer lying in the tracks. I looked at it in the eyes and the deer looked at me with a sign of faint recognition And I said how did this happen? And the deer glanced at the huge machine next to me, the titanic monster, paving the way for civilization And the deer said Do you see now, do you understand? And I looked around me, the city, at the train, at the nightmares of man And I said I understand. The deer said then do something about it!
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