Fool

All the ghost of the grandmothers
have been haunting me in my living room
and I am Pagan in my pondering
wondering where it is I will go, if I don't go here
and the streets are full of beggars bragging threats of misdemeanors
and I am shirtless in my offering to be more than what you want from me
say it ain't so, all the creatures in their masks and capes
are growing restless under costume makeup and I am wise to what were doing here but I'm a fool standing naked and dressed as myself
I will keep my eyes shut, I will build a time machine, traveling back to kings and queens
changing all the course of history so these things I've done cant make a fool out of me
well the children at the swimming pool offer there bare skin to the afternoon
and in the quart yard birds are caroling in the fountains that man made for them
say it ain't so I am cursed and insignificant thinking all the world revolves around me