The Pruning (Pat O’Brian & Access Hollywood Mix)

[Spoken]
On the border of an orchard, on a cultivated lawn, where they practice horticulture, well, they know what's going on. They're not afraid to cut it

Well, then, the best get picked from this virtuous thicket. By scythe or scythe or scissor, by instrument and implement, that's how they cut it

It's time to trim and thin, trim and thin the invasive vine. The roots are lifted. The leaves are dry. From natural laws to material things, nothing in these truths, they can't be changed. I mean, they can be changed!

Oh, perilous world, you're showing every sign of losing your heart, fledgling and tattered during these strange later days just before it all fell apart

Hookers? Who's got the hookers? Sorry. Oh, perilous world, you're showing every sign of losing your heart, fledgling and tattered during these strange later days just before it all fell apart

You can build such fantastic phallus-- I mean, palaces-- on foundations of straw, on weird promises, with one, one final flaw

The seedling is taken as a delicacy, by the sower who's mowing down the nursery. That's crazy

The reaper, he's hiding in the flowerbeds. They're both thinking over what the other said. Well, they said, "We each disturb the earth, but you, my friend, yeah, you, well, you did it first. Yes, yes you did. La da de, la da da"

It's time to trim and thin an invasive vine. The roots are lifted. Hell, the leaves are dry. From natural laws to material things, oh, I'm sorry, I was supposed to be talking about a perilous garden, I think. Or maybe it's here. Oh, oh, you perilous garden. Whoops. I think I fucked up