Red Letter Year

new years eve we dropped mushrooms
 and danced around the house
 making music with everything that we found
 incantation replaced resolution and we
 vowed to allow each perfection that we could be
 and the goddesses sent word that this would be a red letter year
 they didn't mention how much shit was gonna change around here
 it's just as well we weren't swollen with unfocused dread
 we had visions of sugarplums dancing in our heads
 dancing in our heads
 first you go under and then you coming up gives you the bends
 and when you break the surface
 and all you see is your friends
 so you grab your purple crayon
 and flesh out the picture behind
 and finally the whole world is made of one unbroken line
 one unbroken line
 when you wake up sick as a dog
 with dull eyes and really bad hair
 standing under a lit sign with the words "on air"
 and the water is rising
 it's coming in everywhere
 just remember you are there
 you are always, always there
 and representing the white race
 is a man with a monkey for a face
 is flying over in a helicopter
 whistling dixie and playing dumb
 in a town that might put a gun to your throat
 or rip the roof right off of your place
 there's a mold crawling up the walls
 and falling asleep in your lungs
 and you and i both know how to drink so
 we will always have work in this town
 and besides the police are stationed at the bridge
 and they're preventing passage to higher ground
 so let's pull up a bar stool and get ourselves a ring side seat
 for one unnerving moment
 they're gonna show the truth on tv