Scherzo Lyrics

Step on that beggar
Keep your coat
Pennies on the dollar-
Gas for the boat

The Golden rule
Quietly cruel
Is a smile through
The teeth -
People beneath
Grievously plead
For light through the seams
While mile high stacks
Puff blue metal smoke
Like fat fireside cadavers
In plush smoking coats

A Beast in a cage
A diorama king
The soft handed throne sitters
Pulling all the strings

Why is this happening?
Where are our wings?

Anyone can be replaced
Anyone
Anyone can be erased

Folk below
Clutch on their crosses
And pray to His son
Or some silent ghost
Patient like pilgrims
For sight of the coast

Pain is weakness
leaving the body
Seamless
Like systems
Built for the godly
Pain is weakness
Weakness
Leaving the body

Take out the trash
Kill any sign of the past.

Dead and vacant
The corporation
In palatial decoration
Folk below
Buried and naked
The slaves,
Gratefully patient

I saw it on TV
A son from his pulpit
Preach from a script
About two inches thick
A profit for hope
Got a printed proof of purchase
A breadcrumb and a joke