Aristotle Ponders the Sound

Heard my mother cough to show her pain Hidden behind the closed door again My father must have wept when he came To have made such a sensitive boy I've been fighting your holy war Ever since you took that plane Well, I say God bless all love the high lost And the crackhead's blistered vein My boss keeps asking me to ask more questions And so I asked her why Then I asked her why man chose to work for his food When it's clear to me that he'd much rather die And if we're all equal does that mean every man's due some luck And how many roads must a man walk down before he stops giving a fuck She said quit your yapping and get back to work Don't you see that you've got costumers to serve And I said "of course I can because everybody here's a servant to someone else" She said "stop talking now you're boring me don't you see that you're just the help" I woke up in a strange bed one sunday morning With a woman I did not love on my left hand side She looked as if she'd seen a ghost when she woke Screamed when she saw the horse head by my right She told me that her name was lady luck and that I should leave So I collected my stuff feeling slightly relieved She was spread eagle, spread out and spread bare And I was spread thin over the days and months that would proceed She said, "don't you see if you think about it as one start one chance and one end" And I said, "don't talk to me 'cause there can be a thousand if I pretend" Oh, Tom Waits came to me in a dream With a swordfish stuck in the middle of his chest He poured me a glass of rum and pondered what's the point You're doomed to die however hard you try your best And you said the same thing when you left me When you took my devotion and my drive But you left a starving boy when you hung your coat I'll take that back now if you don't mind But I understand cause if you're not sure where you are then you should move And now that I am not I think that I will do some moving too Because if you think about it everybody here's a servant to someone else And if you say you're not then I suppose you're a servant to yourself