FIVE LEGGED SPIDER (J Neo Marvin)
Originally released on MAYDAY, World Service/Rough Trade Deutschland 1994
How can we know how far we’ll go?
The future’s in our grasp till something manages to drag us back.
Who owns our dreams? Who wrote this script?
Staging mutinies on a leaky barge that’s set adrift.
We’re broke. We’re tired. We try so hard to stay inspired.
Strain to find new words. It’s harder when you know your voice is heard.
Come on, let’s crawl, on and on
Up the wall. Another leg done gone.
But we can’t turn back and we won’t turn back.
(We won’t get good answers till we ask better questions.)
© 1994 Undulant Rhetoric (BMI)