tongue teeth and cheek
the hands we move the lips we sugarcoat
in heavyhanded dealings well

a few things that compose the faces of my people
though don't think for a moment there's any song involved
the only music that applies to their crayon colored world
is a thudding beat and a trailing silvery synthesizer in the background
you can't call it beautiful but they don't know to make it their own

they lick the juices from the corpse of another anemic rock star
whose words are his own and his followers from another planet
every profession of adoration that falls from clinique mouths
rings as false and hollow as the heads of gold drownt children
we paste on TV screens and declare their lives 'fabulous / of'
and they are money painted with green and gray colored contact lenses
so lovely so detached without having to feel anything at all
i want to know where my favourite rock star's heart is i think it's probably
somewhere in his five thousand dollar gucci wallet

i wonder what happens in the land of gold and silver
to make it fall that far from heaven graceless faceless
trade in your heroin addiction for a scandalous girlfriend
this tabloid narration is leading us nowhere and
i'm no one at all but i'll say it:

we have crucified our young like salem's sinners at the altar
blind deaf and dumb that is god's will so just give in
he doesn't want to hear you talk he doesn't want to see you smile
he just wants to feel your adoration the biggest rock star of all

his heart is in the donation plate underneath pews
in the raw rouged throats of slack-jawed schoolchildren
a question for the martyrs with their held-high aspirations
goals, dreams, dedications

of what are you trying to be the saviour
there are no people here, just glitter and dulled sexuality
just TV screens and the beautiful faces inside
and i'm going to a rock show don't you know he's going to be there
and i am expecting a revolutionnaire and i know i will be disappointed
but i can't get past the face and eyes as commercial kissed
as every other honeystruck little girl in the world
there is nothing here to save
not even you & me.