Reflections On The Motive Power

If you are constrained to put your water wheel Halfway up a waterfall You can extract at most half of the available energy You can see me through the bars Where you keep me in the corner of your room Happy just to see the back of your shirt Empty as me, but for a cow heart My dirty wings, not what they were Sizzling cardiac thudding blood moon Like sailors on a cruise, we can't lose 'Cause I'm happy just to see you Fishing for the key, you let me out Dance with me a little while My dirty wings, not what they were Spinning, dizzifying, signifying what we were Now I know I can't fly I'm not in your life Time lied Time lied Feathers are falling and so am I