Cape Canaveral

Oh, oh, oh brother totem pole
 I saw your legends lined up
 And I never felt more natural
 Apart, I just came apart
 Please, please, please sister Socrates
 You always answer with a question
 Show some kindness to a petty thief
 Forgive, you did forgive
 And watch the migrants' smoke in the old orange grove
 And the red rocket blaze over Cape Canaveral
 You've been a father to me, your 1960's speak
 Give me comatose joy like re-run TV
 While the mountainside was shining
 Wild colors of my destiny
 I watched your face age backwards changing shape in my memory
 You taught me victory's sweet even deep in the cheap seats
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 Hey, hey, hey mother interstate
 Can you deliver me from evil
 Make me honest, make me wedding cake
 Atone, I will atone
 Wait, wait, wait mighty outer space
 All that flying saucer terror
 Made me lazy, drinking lemonade
 A waste, it just went to waste
 Like the freon cold out the hotel door
 Or the white rocket fade over Cape Canaveral
 You've been a daughter to me, your buried shoebox grief
 I felt your poltergeist love like Savannah heat
 While the waterfall was pouring
 Crazy symbols of my destiny
 I watched your face die backwards little baby in my memory
 You told me victory's sweet even deep in the cheap seats
 
 And you don't judge me
 That's not your style
 But I won't see you for a little while
 And there's no worries, oh Lord, who's got time
 All these changes gonna fill your mind
 Like the citrus glow off the old orange grove
 Or the red rocket blaze over Cape Canaveral
 It's been a nightmare for me, some 1980's greed
 Gives me parachute dreams like old war movies
 While the universe was drawing
 Perfect circles for infinity
 I watched the stars get smaller tiny diamonds in my memory
 I know that victory is sweet even deep in the cheap seats