A Dreamer for the Times

By the time you get this missive, it will already be too late
By the time the shadows come to light you were already marked by Cain
But I've been thinking about your father's guns and your mother's welfare state
I been taking shots with vampires down on Ashbury and Haight
And I know you want to teach me your moral messages and games
But I'm the outsider I'm the wild one, I'm at home down among the flames

And I am walking to the mountains to become one with the higher mind
And I am turning back the centuries in pretty clouds and painted skies
And by the time the war is over well we won't remember why
We had started it, before you learned to quit, before you took out your brother's eye
And I'm an anarchist, a survivalist, I'm a dreamer for the times, Yeah

I'm not broken, I'm not virtuous, I am horny and I am fine
I'm the wabi sabi wunderkind, and even death to me feels fine
Cuz I'm a hopeful, loving, nihilist I straight won't give up on life,
I've seen the beauty of Katanga slum and I know how empires die,
It looks like Hollywood, and what you understood, I'm sure you've seen it many times...
It's that face there the mirror, it's your hand that holds the knife
It's the idols in your temple and how you think you know what's right
But I hold with those who favor fire, the ones who dance all through the night
The way I almost touch, your dreams, your lust Yeah I'm a dreamer for the times

I am the naked king, my art is wandering
I'm a dreamer for the times