Grandmother Raincloud

Oh the heavens hang low
And the earth is twisted up all around me
How astounding the world seems to melt before my eyes
The sky is a knot of sensation

Whose ecstatic orgasms open chasms of time
Which erupt and intertwine between every thing I am feeling

So as day caves away into evening
I am eating the flies off the ceiling
And revealing a sun into the eyes of everyone
I've been meeting

So when the sky is set to bleed
And the air makes you kneel in your vengeance
Pay the penance that waits at the gate of each respite
As the night conducts calm coronations

Singing: Grandmother Rain-Cloud, you drift as you sleep
And you are blocking the sun from my eyes

The secrets you hold in your dreams make you weep
For the babies you bleed form the sky

Each drop is a child who has fallen from your dress
What a mess when their shapes hit the ground

The bodies collect in a flood of your rage
The sidewalks and fields are the stage

The heat of the day evaporates every shape
Turning all of our children to steam

We are the frozen explorers of hypnosis
The crippled companions of time

Invent our next lesson, withhold our confessions
To wander the wavering line

The tightrope of wisdom, stretched over the chasm
Of morals we form in our minds

Where over one edge there is madness
And over the other is peace

And I have conquered every mile, walking on in single file
To decide on the way I should lean

So I swallow the virus, the echo of silence
The kiss of any pretty young man

Back at his hive we are drinking saliva
And watching the whole room expand

And

The memory lingers, of the cold and slim fingers
Oh! the revelry I used to know as 'sin'

There was no godly force to inspire me there
Or dissuade me from searching within

It's only skin after all, and emotion
Until or energy is recycled again

The father of Christians has sent me a vision
A virgin, a viper, a voice

Oh mother of mutants, your prodigious students
Are following the fable of choice

Sister of soul, I am in your control
And I am heeding your call to rejoice

I needn't success to be happy
I needn't another to feel love
I am alive in a world of such beauty
Which I need only your truth to sustain

So lay by my fire, discover desire
And rest in the grace of these lies

Bask in the cancer, the chemical answer
To the questions you could never disguise

Oh woman you've been chosen to excavate the poison
I excrete from the glands near my eyes

Your glory enough to move mountains
Your glamour enough to blind the stars
Your infinite passion, and the devious fashion
You have used to burn your image into my brain

Over, and over and...