External Actor

[Verse 1]

It's all I'm looking for

These moments of opaque-eyed knocked-out rapture

Helpless as a calf at the capture

Chosen in a frozen instant

[Verse 2]

Far away from the scabbed-out moment

Far from the flick-flick-flick of the flatscreen

Far from the poison power of cash

Green cash reeking and heating the jetstream

[Verse 3]

Oh, the sharp sweet breath, she is my daughter

Daughter of the flashing instant

Daughter of watching "Daughters of Darkness"

On your parents' couch with your high-school boyfriend

[Verse 4]

Spinning fevered in a haze of ditchweed

Daughters of long hard skids on the 10-speed

Daughters of July rips at the land speed

Semi-freckled eternal thrasher

[Verse 5]

Feather-haloed floating hair eye-flasher

Floating like a fire in the distance

Flashing like a flush to the skin

And whispering like the wind through the rushes

[Chorus]

Oh no, external actor

External actor

[Verse 6]

You gotta hoist a high flag

You gotta learn how to hang with the freaks and the hicks

In the heat of the lot

You gotta learn what is and what is not

And you learn what isn't is not a lot

[Verse 7]

To drain a tin beer

Streaming cold in the fields

Summer's up and the heat is relentless

A drop in the rainbow rain on the canvas

Calls of friends in the capital of cannabis

[Verse 8]

Where the cops down the block

And they circle and they stop

And they circle and they stop

And they stop and they circle

And they stop, God help cause it's a lot

And may God have mercy on the polyglot

[Chorus]

Oh no, external actor

External actor

[Verse 9]

A million miles across the starlight

A skip skip skip

A wide long curve

A space dust melt around a star

Keep shining in the cold

Keep shining in the dark

[Chorus]

External actor

[Outro]

Neighbor-love and brother-love

And blanketing love of God above

Sigh of the river far from shore

Silence and the voice don't speak any more

Neighbor-love and brother-love

And blanketing love of God above

Sigh of the river far from shore

Silence and the voice don't speak any more

Neighbor-love and brother-love

And blanketing love of God above

Sigh of the river far from shore

Silence and the voice don't speak any more

Neighbor-love and brother-love

And blanketing love of God above

Sigh of the river far from shore

Silence and the voice don't speak any more

Neighbor-love and brother-love

And blanketing love of God above

Sigh of the river far from shore

Silence and the voice don't speak any more

Neighbor-love and brother-love

And blanketing love of God above

Sigh of the river far from shore

Silence and the voice don't speak any more

Neighbor-love and brother-love

And blanketing love of God above

Sigh of the river far from shore

Silence and the voice don't speak any more