Birds With Broken Wings

Bring me birds with broken wings, men with all the answers
 People who have killed, give me incurable cancers
 Bring me beaches slicked in oil, give me disregard for doubt
 Street lights shine on broken roads where no one is about
 I want that hopeless dream depression, punishments without a cause
 Give me impotent obsession and disregard for laws
 I want the trees in single file, bring the corpse of something rare
 Show me children who are sinners, show me mounds of human hair
 I climbed up the mountain just to kill my son
 An angel tried to stop me with a ram
 Well, he said, "Your mind's infected," but I said, "You lack perspective"
 You gotta walk the bottom if you wanna see the top
 La da da da, la da da da, la da da da da da da da da da
 La da da da, la da da da, la da da da da da da da da da
 Give me poison I can swim in, water I can't drink
 Wheels that won't stop spinning, teach my children not to think
 I want the fruit that tastes like nothing and two thumbs for every crook
 Give me lessons without questions, mild the days the books
 Give me metaphors unraveled, poetry defined
 Bring me the head of Dionysius, but please, don't spill out the wine
 Trade the future for the present, trade me ashes for my history
 I don't need to look inside, I know the answer to the mystery
 I climbed up the mountain just to kill my son
 An angel tried to stop me with a ram
 Well he said, "Your mind's infected," but I said, "You lack perspective"
 You gotta walk the bottom if you wanna see the top
 La da da da, la da da da, la da da da da da da da da da
 La da da da, la da da da, la da da da da da da da da da
 Oh, I know they call me crazy
 But there will be no turning back
 I don't care if things get ugly
 Once the word of God is spoken
 There's no way to take it back
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 I climbed up the mountain just to kill my son
 An angel tried to stop me with a ram
 Well he said, "Your mind's infected," but I said, "You lack perspective"
 You gotta walk the bottom if you wanna see the top