Mothers of Invention

For the sum of us

It’s completion, loaded myself in the walkway

Scratching out, walk away

Deals like problems with the pots inside the phone

Hand the liar’s block

Coming down with the deals, girls (for once!)

Rip some texture out of me, [into me] small world

Rip into me if you more [caps] and one last question that’s all I need

Go buy a fresh stem and issue, open end

A moon boot tire survived earthling

(Heave!) Cracks in the headphones and the scalp

(Left it, left it) Colours within, colours within

[I’ll see said the plum and] curtsy bow

He bowed on his birthday

Moon against his own questions anyone skeleton

(Skeleton key!) key period open

Walking through the rain and the millennium

Where lazy and convenient is the mother of invention

I must have the guts to mention to that man in that reflection

(What are you looking at?)

So it’s been a minute and I’ve grown fond of this outfit

Gotta escape the lone we keep on the deep end we depend upon

To continue to struggle, to bond connecting thoughts

Thoughts in spare time, I’m a reoccurring theme (remember me?)

How soon they forget, I ain’t seen lanterns

I developed the ability to rise

Now I own all the shadows and reflect off everything

Sold the bulletproof vest 'cause they stuck [dumb and] forgot how to propel

To move each other to move bodies of water

Artists scared to crack the surface but what I give is distorted

And carry to bury brought back to life the sandcastle

Nothing lasts, beauty is what you make it

Until the waves of wind and people ruin

What I’ve worked so very hard to preserve

Walking through the rain and the millennium

Where lazy and convenient is the mother of invention

I must have the guts to mention to that man in that reflection

(What are you looking at?)

And when the sun looks at me, I feel alright

But ain’t nothing but a moment before it turns away

The humidity trip me off of my feet last night

When I looked up I saw that I had nothing to say

I think I’d like people more if they’d think more like me

So quietly I wait for my inner revolution

When the eagle can soar forward toward the sea

I’ll aim at the beast in the name of retribution

Now I’m lookin’ down the barrel of a gun

Son of a gun, son of a Sam, son of the man

Who was a brother to Sam and

If they see my shadow they should run, 'cause I won’t alt 'til I’m done

Spreadin’ all my salt across the land

Walking through the rain and the millennium

Where lazy and convenient is the mother of invention

I must have the guts to mention to that man in that reflection

(What are you looking at?)

Walking through the rain and the millennium

Where lazy and convenient is the mother of invention

I must have the guts to mention to that man in that reflection

(What are you looking at?)

As a child I was afraid of the storm, but now I welcome the rain