20171228 - This Human Zoo

from The Song Diary II by Paleo

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Looking down from his ivory spaceship,
the alien would see things that are most puzzling.
What you and I do every day:
all of our loving, all of our fighting,
all our hustling and our bustling.

What a ride! What a view, he’d say.
What a world, this human zoo.
They say they’re gonna change,
but they never do.

Polishing bombs, pissing on graves,
gathering around faucets that ferry such poisons,
clinging to partners or to family
that are missing all of their loves convenient appointments.

What a ride! What a view, he’d say.
What a world, this human zoo.
They say they’re gonna change,
but they never do.

We have inherited a haunted house
set in a field of eyes and wings
where the ghosts don’t know they’re dead
and we don’t know we’re the living thing.

What a ride! What a view, he’d say.
What a world, this human zoo.
They say they’re gonna change,
but they never do.

Mad with the truth, or sane with lies,
scratching at every door like cats going blind,
kissing every bride, drowning in raindrops,
circling the chairs forever waiting for the music to stop.

What a ride! What a view, he’d say.
What a world, this human zoo.
They say they’re gonna change,
but they never do.

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from The Song Diary II, released April 15, 2018

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