Powers

How did it start? Did I fall into a nuclear reactor? Crawl out with acid skin or somethin' worse A hostile alien ambassador? Or am I simply another of the universe's failed experiments? Either way, I have been wonderin' just how it is (how it is) I have never heard (never heard) the tale of how I got my powers Thrust into bein', careenin' along On a crooked little trajectory Dissolvin' in movement, a body in orbit Or a roach on his way to the gutter The tail of a comet burned up in an instant, the destruction of matter There's no object to be seen in the supercollider Just a light in the tunnel and whatever gets scattered Life flashin' before the eye of whatever comes after The force of our impact, the fission The hum of our contact, the sound of our collisions