Tuning

[Verse 1]
Tuned in, my goddess looked radiant as moon skin
Praising what I plucked from the ocean like a bluefin
Great lakes of saline solution
That form from her tears shed in this age of fear and confusion
Are teeming with life, how to shepherd something new in
And salvage what we can from the wreckage and the ruins
The systems you believe in are the same institutions
That train goons with nightsticks to cave your roof in
Moving on, cross the Rubicon
Lost in the details and minutia of the plot as we troop along
Removing flies from my bat soup using tongs
Scrutinizing every drop, trying not to lose my calm

[Chorus]
Where we headed next? Is it safe yet?
Bricks in a pyramid scheme chasing a paycheck
What's left after Babylon's model train wrecks
And who's eyeball is that at the top of the apex?

[Verse 2]
There's fingers pointing every which way
A wilderness of mirrors in the Devil's ribcage
You misbehavin' kids better do as you're told
Listen to your Uncle Sam scold, putrid and old
The very same that threw Frank Olson through a window
That COINTELPRO'd movements and uprooted their goals
And counted up his silver coins like Judas of old
I wasn't with the King of Kings, I was superimposed
Said it twice more, waiting for the rooster to crow
Bowed my head in shame, felt like I was losing control
Met some grifters on the journey and some beautiful souls
And some mixtures of the two, that's the rules of the road, so

[Chorus]
Where we headed next? Is it safe yet?
Bricks in a pyramid scheme chasing a paycheck
What's left after Babylon's model train wrecks
And who's eyeball is that at the top of the apex?

[Interlude]
Let's play something really weird and wonderful
Now, where did the story begin?

[Verse 3]
First came the birth pangs
Followed by the myriad lifeforms the Earth sustains
And the birds sang as clay made from the dirt and rain
Became a network of nerves and veins
That gained self-awareness and learned the names
Of the beasts and fish, all was bliss
'Til we mainlined venom from the serpents' fangs
And learned to throw rocks and ball our fists
Then the whole world calcified
Taught how to pry metal from the mountainside
And forge weapons to defend falsehood with every ounce of pride
I walk city blocks watched by a thousand eyes
Look at all the vampire bats
That jeer and laugh, perched high on the pyramid cap
They prayed on our fear in the year of the rat
And treated half-truth as empirical fact
I place no faith in this
Or any system that grinds men's bones into grist
In between the gears and cogs and the iron-clad jaws
Of leviathans that roam the abyss
Any time the words fail, the music speaks
So you can let loose and move your feet
Then the world's a cathedral to seek and find
You don't need the mediation of a Judas priest
Who's in charge?
The wings are detached from the fuselage
The "now" is a product of the tech goliaths and the war machine
But I can see another world through the bars
And the future's ours
First came a flower that emerged and opened when the word was spoken
I climbed from a foxhole, hurt and broken
And sorrow transformed into pure devotion