One Hand Free

When you’re known far and wide as a wizard of words But you spend all your time with the lizards and birds And you don’t make a sound and you don’t have a thought in your head Well the moon gets heavy and the night gets blurred And you don’t crave affection from the wicked world You prefer the scales of justice and the feathers of bed I just can’t look into the eyes of any living mammal When my blood’s running this cold I turn the music up so loud it erodes my teeth’s enamel Keep one hand free for the other to hold Yah We’re the last two members of a dying race When I said the wrong thing you threw your drink in my face And the stakes are total extinction, but that’s just as well For if the world’s survival depends on love And that’s just the resource that we’re running out of Then baby you can eat shit and die and I will see you in hell I just can’t get comfortable with our fingers laced together When you’ve got retractable claws I’d like a little time offstage but the show goes on forever Keep one hand free for a Zen round of applause Oh boy