Wire Animals

I'm amazed how the news does travel

Static like ghosts in gasoline

Faster than vision on a wire

Faster than voices overseas

And the voice says to me

"You are alone but you are not free."

Late at night when I'm cooling down

Rattles sound inches from my face

And your voice lashes like a snake

With a phone cord for a tail

And the snake says to me

"You are alone but you are not free."

I dial networks that ripen slowly

Ripen long after 12 o'clock

And the wind shakes the drying fruit

Sounds like chewing in the dark

And I choose what I see -

I'm alone but I am not free.

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Lyrics submitted by Josh Mostek.