Cleanse Song

Hear the chimes, did you know that the wind when it blows
 It is older than Rome and all of this sorrow
 See the new pyramids down in old Manhattan
 From the roof of a friend's I watched an empire ending
 Heard it loud and long the river's Om
 Time marching on to a madman's drum
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 Don't forget what you've learned all you give is returned
 And if life seems absurd what you need is some laughter
 And a season to sleep and a place to get clean
 Maybe Los Angeles, somewhere no one is expecting
 On a de-tox walk through the Glendale Park over sidewalk chalk
 Someone wrote in red, "start over"
 So I muffled my scream on an Oxnard beach
 Full of fever dreams that scare you sober
 Into saltless dinners
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 Take the fruit from the tree, break the skin with your teeth
 Is it bitter or sweet? All depends on your timing
 Like a meeting of chance with the train station glance
 Many lifetimes had past in a instant reminded
 Of a millstone house in a seaside town
 When your heart gave out in a mission bed
 So your wife gave birth to a funeral dirge
 As you woke up purged as a wailing infant
 In Krung Thep, Thailand
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 Hear the chimes, did you know that the wind when it blows
 It is older than Rome and our joy and our sorrow