Counterclockwise

[Intro]

Two milligrams of oral triazolam every seven hours induces a safe sleep state at a minimal metabolic rate

I know we weren't having this conversation the first time through, so you don't know who we lost

At this continued state of breath, the human body breathes point three liters of oxygen a minute

It really could not have been much

It doesn't matter how much, it just matters that it's changed

Or roughly two thousand liters in four days (I realize now)

Look, Abe, I know what you're saying

The class E oxygen tank holds six hundred and twenty-five liters (Thе fool I have been)

To maintain hydration, the body cycles through a minimum of two and a half litеrs of oxygen a day (Living off distorted dreams)

A small tank of medical-grade nitrous oxide would be needed on the other side

[Verse]

I didn't get but a little bit, but still dreamt

After I wake up, I wake up again

It's not easy to bend time how I do it

I had the knack I suppose, knee full of fluid

She had me running back, X's and O's, she know what she doing

Daylight crack under curtains, we lay spooning

Bodies wrapped up, cups swollen, belly a serpent moving

Counterclockwise, counterclockwise

One city sleep, durag tied

The other bare its teeth as it opens its eyes

Never the twain shall meet

I know she was a pro how she slid out the bedsheets

Grasping gasping fish, I slide 'em in the fresh grease

Spattering, sputtering epithets

I dance outta niggas' reach like Swee'Pea giggling

Like it's sweet in the streets

Maybe it is, I just speak for me

Scalding water, the wash basin fogged the mirrors

Start my day but the other place still feel realer

Turn of phrase, just a bit, I got power steering

The woods gave way to a clearing

Where I knew they were waiting for my appearance

With knives ancient, faceless, but I know who they are

[Interlude]

I realize now the fool I have been

Living off distorted dreams

[Outro]

That's because he was the only human being they had captured, the CIA had captured

He was also the only human being that they had available to torture

And they created a fictitious person described previously as an Al Qaeda representative—

As the CIA cables showed, for seventeen straight days (A leader and so on, and passed that on through the Department of Justice)

They cycled through each one of these techniques, the walling, the waterboarding, the confined spaces (The Department of Justice said, "We're giving permission to torture him, assuming these facts are true")

The-the-the detention hand and knees locked together so they can't move— (In fact, the CIA knew they weren't true, and as I said earlier, had been told by the FBI–)