Close to the Bone

we'll play our cards close to the bone
we'll skip the light fandango
even if we don't know what that means
with every step we take
we'll draw a new line in the sand
and as lightning strikes the same place twice 
we'll roll away the stone

there's a simple truth 
that's mostly eluded us babe
we spent too many years looking up
when we should've been looking through
there's a time and place for everything 
except the things there's no time or place for
so let's draw the bow across the string
and let the neighbors know it's time to celebrate

the people were primed 
and the conditions were ripe 
for revolution
but then an awkward silence descended
on every dinner party in the land
everybody went home and cast the same old vote
along with the first stone
so that the men on the hill 
could get back to the business of 
manufacturing the enemy

when all is said and done
still gonna be plenty to do and say 
we'll let the chips fall where we want 
just exactly where we want them to
we'll arrive somewhere between total enlightenment
and sugary sweet revenge
and the children that we abandoned
they'll support us in our old age


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