Carnie

First taste
First taste
Always so good
First taste
First taste
Order understood

A raw, vainglorious fakir chews more than he should
Snake eggs in his suitcase
He'd have goose eggs if he could
But he knows now
He knows
How he'd like things to go
First taste so good

And a raw, vainglorious fakir chews more than he should
Black teeth in blossom noosed around the rooting stars
A third eyelid opens
Chained wild awake
On a screaming pyre of Wormwood
In a mesh of induced scars

First taste
First taste
Always so good
First taste
First taste
Order understood

And a raw, vainglorious fakir chews inside the lurid night
Is still chewing
Is still chewing
While the showmen bloat balloons
And the crowd pick though their joints
Amongst the cages of baboons
And their crocodiles are bright
Beneath the innards of the moon

First taste
First taste
Always so good
First taste
First taste
Order understood

A raw, vainglorious fakir chews more than he ever should
Goose eggs in his suitcase
He'd have duck eggs if he could
But he knows now
He knows
All the next bill will show
First taste so good

All dislocated fakirs
All dislocated fakirs
In a circle round the cakes
Whilst the ovens are still warm
All dislocated fakirs
In a circle round the cakes
As the stars outside sprout thorns