Interpret:

Jello Biafra

Album:

Tumor Circus

Two skeletons embrace 
Atop a human brain 
Revolving sunset glare 
Frosts the folds 
They stretch across the wrinkles 
Like a nude Marilyn Monroe 
Clatter thier teeth 
And take a bite of the soil 


Rock back and forth 
Screaming at the sky 
Where is our God? 
We wanna love you but why? 
Slices of our mind 
Point to different paths 
Only one might grant a taste 
Of eternal peace 


Dip your toe in the ice 
Scratch your head, find lice 
Crawling out from your fingernail 
Calcutta-A-Go-Go 


Transfixed as the world turns 
More and more like Calcutta 
Trampling heat of life in a shrinking cage 
More and more crowded into less 
Writing drips from the walls 
So thin they wilt 
With the next monsoon 


Who will survive? 
The people or the snakes? 
The sharks? The roaches? 
Or the rats? 
Who are we to tell ourselves 
That the pinnacle 
Of evolution 
Is the human race 


Trickling diwn through your gums 
Nothing tastes quite right 
I wave my antennae 
Calcutta-A-Go-Go 


Eye to eye 
Kali Yuga 
Feeding on a host who gave up to soon 


Let's ride the falling stars 
To the ruins of the old gold mine 
Rub the rust and splinters into our wounds 


Roll and grind on the old slag heap 
At the edge of the shafts of darkness 
That plunge so far below 


Drop a rock down 
There's no splash 
Silence... 
No dust, no clues, no ash 
Echo back 


Spellbound jaws 'neath the balcony 
Possum tailed from the Lemming tree 
Plug-in Evita waves 
And flashes a peroxide smile- 
Goodbye 


Follow hope upstream 
As we're swept downstream 
Godot fell asleep at the wheel somewhere 
Calcutta-A-Go-Go 
Oh oh oh 
Our heads are in the sand at high noon