Lazaretto

My veins are blue and connected

And every single bone in my brain is electric

But I dig ditches like the best of 'em

Yo trabajo duro

Como en madera y yeso

Como en madera y yeso

And even God herself has fewer plans than me

But she never helps me out with my scams for free, though

She grabs a stick and then she points it at me

When I say nothing, I say everything

Yeah, when I say nothing, I say everything

They put me down in a lazaretto

Born rotten, bored rotten

Making models of people I used to know

Out of coffee and cotton

And all my illegitimate kids have begotten

Thrown down to the wolves, made feral for nothin'

Quarantined on the Isle of Man

And I'm tryin' to escape any way that I can, oh

Any way that I can, oh

Damn, I have no time left, time is lost

No time at all, throw it in a garbage can

And I shake God's hand

I jump up and let her know when I can

This is how I'm gonna do it

They wanna burn down the prison

They're lighting fires with the cash of the masses

And like the dough, I don't fall down

I'm so Detroit, I make it rise from the ashes